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Subject: bug#21010: eject fails because of hardcoded path to umount
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 00:05:11 +0200
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Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> skribis:

> On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 02:18:21PM +0200, Alex Sassmannshausen wrote:
>> eject: unable to exec /bin/umount of `/mnt/usb'
>
> The culprit is in the source code of util-linux-2.25.2/sys-utils/eject.c:
> 681:                    execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, "-n", N=
ULL);
> 683:                    execl("/bin/umount", "/bin/umount", name, NULL);
> 685:            errx(EXIT_FAILURE, _("unable to exec /bin/umount of `%s'"=
), name);

This should be fixed in core-updates.

> This should be easy to patch, but there are other utilities with the same
> problem. A hopeless case seems to be "whereis": It looks for files in fix=
ed
> lists of locations such as
> static const char *bindirs[] =3D {
>         "/usr/bin",
>         "/usr/sbin",

I think we should check what this list is used for, and then prepend
entries accordingly.  Volunteering?  :-)

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