Description of problem: The mqueue pseudo filesystem provides the only means to inspect currently created POSIX message queues. Not having it mounted would be equivalent to not having the ipcs program for SysV IPC. Unprivileged users could allocate resources without the sysadmin knowing. Uncleanly terminated processes leave behind garbage which cannot be cleaned up. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.create POSIX message queue 2.try to find it outside the process 3. Actual results: not possible Expected results: ls -l /dev/mqueue should show it Additional info: I think it's anaconda's job. A new line in /etc/fstab should be created during the installation/update process. none /dev/mqueue mqueue noexec 0 0 This also should go into RHEL4.
I'd rather do this more generically than having to continue to do it for every kernel filesystem type that gets added. Especially as otherwise, people won't get them on upgrades
*** Bug 140809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A solution we're considering is a separate fstab.sys for 'system' filesystems (such as /proc, /sys, /selinux, /dev/pts, /dev/mqueue). This would be a packaged file that could be updated easily without %post hackery. This would break something looking in fstab for where /proc is (or should be) mounted. Arguably, something looking at it for where something is mounted is broken (and should be looking at a) mtab b) /proc/mounts.) What this will change is the behavior of umount -a/mount -a. Whether these sorts of filesystems should follow the same behavior there should be considered.
If you go the route with a separate file, don't special case it. Do it as we do in many such cases: 1. create a directory /etc/fstab.d 2. install files such as /etc/fstab.d/system in it Then other packages can do similar things. We see new special-purpose filesystems all the time.
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This is still a problem. It has to be fixed as explained before.
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This is fixed in F-16.