[hurd] Define _PATH_MOUNTED as "/etc/mtab"

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:43:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.cvs,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Justus Winter <[email protected]>

Change the definition of _PATH_MOUNTED to "/etc/mtab". This is the
value used on Linux, and BSD also uses /etc/mtab.

The change is motivated by the fact that on Debian /etc/mtab is a
symbolic link to /proc/mounts. This patch adjusts the macro for
non-linux systems such as Hurd. Changing this using
sysdeps/mach/hurd/paths.h causes build problems because
/usr/include/hurd/paths.h is shadowed by this file. This change is
proposed in the hope that aligning the non-linux targets with the
glibc for Linux is perceived as a good thing while fixing this problem
on Debian/Hurd along the way.
---
 sysdeps/generic/paths.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/paths.h b/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
index 893b4c2286..6b8f440428 100644
--- a/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/paths.h
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
 #define	_PATH_MAN	"/usr/share/man"
 #define	_PATH_MEM	"/dev/mem"
 #define	_PATH_MNTTAB	"/etc/fstab"
-#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/var/run/mtab"
+#define	_PATH_MOUNTED	"/etc/mtab"
 #define	_PATH_NOLOGIN	"/etc/nologin"
 #define	_PATH_PRESERVE	"/var/lib"
 #define	_PATH_RWHODIR	"/var/spool/rwho"
-- 
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