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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: converting /etc/mtab to a symlink
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Mike Gilbert wrote:
> This is a horrible example. /etc/resolv.conf is a configuration file
> for code that lives entirely in userspace. Of course it makes no sense
> to shove that into the kernel.

My point is that it's silly to have a hard-coded special case in the 
kernel for mtab, especially if it doesn't do the job properly and 
requires an extra utab file, when the general solution could work for 
any file and wouldn't require any changes when the namespace feature 
isn't in use.