[systemd-devel] Hard-coded /bin/mount in systemd

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 11/27/2013 02:58 PM, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Hannes Reinecke <hare at suse.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> for some reason systemd has /bin/mount hardcoded in
>> src/core/mount.c:mount_enter_mounting()
>>
>> Which is a bit odd, seeing that everyting moved to /usr/bin.
>> So we always have to do a symlink here, which really is a bit annoying.
>>
>> Is this by design or a simple left-over?
> 
> If *everything* moved to /usr/bin, then /bin itself has to be a
> symlink anyway (as many tools expect and some standards require
> specific commands to be in /bin).
> 
Ah. IIRC it was _systemd_ which initiated the move to /usr, so I
found it slightly odd to rely on a location which it has just
obsoleted ...
Or, rather, to have a hard-coded location to start with.

Cheers,

Hannes
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