bug#1205: [BusyBox] bug#1205: BusyBox] bug#1205: mount handles links differently in 0.60

[Matt Kraai]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:04:39AM -0400, David Douthitt wrote:
> You all lost me waaaaaaay back :-)
> 
> But it seems that the bug is still there ("mount handles links
> differently in 0.6.0")...
> 
> Another way to show it up:
> 
> Consider:
> 
> /dev/fd0u1680
> /dev/boot -> /dev/fd0u1680
> 
> ...then...
> 
> # mount /dev/boot
> # umount /dev/boot
> 
> ...umount will fail every time, since it is /dev/fd0u1680 which is
> mounted, not /dev/boot.

The problem is that it shouldn't follow symlinks when
canonicalizing the path.  Vladimir and I have been arguing about
the smallest function to do this.  When we check it in (hopefully
into 0.60.1), this problem should go away.

Matt