From 38ec147a181cc2b5d160d98ee20bb9aacc5de9eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 12:32:41 +0000
Subject: mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that)

---
 util-linux/mount.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'util-linux')

diff --git a/util-linux/mount.c b/util-linux/mount.c
index b76c38a..030ea66 100644
--- a/util-linux/mount.c
+++ b/util-linux/mount.c
@@ -1453,8 +1453,10 @@ static int singlemount(struct mntent *mp, int ignore_busy)
 
 	// Look at the file.  (Not found isn't a failure for remount, or for
 	// a synthetic filesystem like proc or sysfs.)
+	// (We use stat, not lstat, in order to allow
+	// mount symlink_to_file_or_blkdev dir)
 
-	if (!lstat(mp->mnt_fsname, &st)
+	if (!stat(mp->mnt_fsname, &st)
 	 && !(vfsflags & (MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND | MS_MOVE))
 	) {
 		// Do we need to allocate a loopback device for it?
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