From: vine24683579@gmail.com   
      
   On Sunday, 19 February 2023 at 11:05:09 UTC, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   ChangeLog.txt   
   Thu Nov 22 05:56:56 UTC 2018:   
   "rc.S: Support replacing the /etc/mtab file with a symlink to /proc/mounts."   
   Wed Nov 28 07:25:32 UTC 2018:   
   "Make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts on the installer.   
   On a freshly installed system, make /etc/mtab a symlink to /proc/mounts."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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