Tango FileRoots

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Jesse Phillips wrote:

> I'm interested in knowing why FileRoots.list() uses /etc/mtab for its
> root folders in linux? To my knowledge Linux only has one root and if
> anything its sub directories would be considered the roots. I just don't
> see the point of using mtab, but then again I'm looking at it from how
> file managers look at the system.

The unix root / isn't the most useful thing to ask for, thus mtab is used to
show all mounted devices.

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