Programming

Hi all,
I am writing a mount/umount procedure for CD rom and getting into the problem that /etc/mtab is not in sync with /proc/mounts.
Then I am ending up with a bunch of dangling /etc/mtab entries that are not valid anymore.
Reading through mount(8) I see a -n switch (--no-mtab) which would not write into mtab, but I can't see a flag to the mount C-function call (in mount(2) or googling) that would do this.
Does anyone know how could I get this behavior?
Thank you!
Miro

Have you tried using the MS_READONLY flag to the mount syscall and below is an excerpt from the mount syscall manpage...

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The mountflags argument may have the magic number 0xC0ED (MS_MGC_VAL) in the top 16 bits
(this was required in kernel versions prior to 2.4, but is no longer required  and  ignored
if specified), and various mount flags (as defined in <linux/fs.h> for libc4 and libc5 and in 
<sys/mount.h> for glibc2) in the low order 16 bits:
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       MS_RDONLY
              Mount file system read-only.

The mount sytem-call doesn't update /etc/mtab, the mount utility does.

How to fix your problem depends on what your procedure is.