From: Henrik.Carlqvist@deadspam.com   
      
   On Sun, 19 Feb 2023 00:47:23 -0400, Mike Spencer wrote:   
      
   > Jim Diamond  writes:   
   >> On 2023-02-16 at 20:34 AST, Mike Spencer    
   >> wrote:   
   >>> But in 15, /etc/mtab is a symlink to /proc/mounts   
   >>   
   >> Not on my Slackware64 15.0 system:   
   >>   
   >> % ls -l /etc/mtab -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 523 Feb 18 15:57 /etc/mtab   
   >   
   > Now that's really bizarre.  A very basic difference between 32 and 64   
   > bit Slackware?   
      
   I can say that on my 64 bit systems, Slackware 14.2 has /etc/mtab as a   
   file but Slackware 15.0 has /etc/mtab as a symbolic link. If it would   
   matter, both systems has been installed from scratch and not upgraded   
   from previous versions of Slackware.   
      
   However, I can't say how I got that symlink in Slackware 15.0. Looking at   
   the Slackware 15 packages, the package etc-15.0-x86_64-17.txz contains an   
   empty file etc/mtab.new and the doinst.sh script of that package seems to   
   copy that empty file to etc/mtab.   
      
   In /etc/rc.d/rc.S there are some comments about a symlink, but I was   
   unable to find which package or script that created the symlink.   
      
   So to me it seems as if /etc/mtab should have been a file on my 15.0   
   system, but somehow it has become a symlink.   
      
   regards Henrik   
      
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