On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <can...@gmail.com> wrote: > And just for completeness, systemd actually requires /etc/mtab as a > link to /proc/self/mounts, so don't be surprised if software in the > future in Linux just assumes that.
Part of the reason for this is namespace support. As namespaces become more popular the concept of a global list of mounts goes away, because every process on the system has its own view of the virtual filesystem. Chroots are just a very primitive form of file namespaces when you think about it. Rich
