From: John F Carr (jfc@athena.mit.edu)
Date: 02/13/93 

From: jfc@athena.mit.edu (John F Carr)
Subject: Re: A warning
Date: 13 Feb 1993 22:59:42 GMT

In article <+-93x!g@rpi.edu> jfritz@rdrc.rpi.edu writes:
>Another useful thing to put into /proc would be the /etc/mtab database
>maintained by mount().

I think it is a very good idea for the kernel to maintain mtab. I don't
care whether mtab is read from a file in /proc or from the kernel using a
new system call. Several versions of UNIX do this.