It's much faster to check the last modified date of /etc/mtab via stat(2)
than reading it in every two seconds and reparsing it.

Alternatively,

	http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/



------- Additional Comments From darin@bentspoon.com 2000-08-22 09:08:21 ----

Bug 40779 says that we'd like to use fam some day.



------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2000-10-16 19:47:44 ----

Batch-assigning QA ownership of remaining bugs to eli@eazel.com



------- Additional Comments From gzr@eazel.com 2000-12-11 10:24:43 ----

I now use /proc/mounts.  This is faster and doesn't hit the disk. This is good 
for laptop users.



------- Additional Comments From eazel@linuxstuff.org 2000-12-11 10:53:53 ----

The FS cache will store the info that's returned by fstat(), so the disk
isn't hit anyway once it's cached (2.4.x kernels).

And /proc/mounts may be Linux specific.

..just some food for thought.




------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-01-10 14:16:41 ----

Gene says we don't use /etc/mtab anymore, and this bug no longer applies.
Rubber-stamping as verified.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 20:37 -------

The original reporter (eazel@linuxstuff.org) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org.