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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:02:52AM -0500, Paul McFerrin wrote:
>I discovered a read-only filesystem called /proc/mounts which is 
>symbolically linked from /etc/mtab.
>
>My question is: who populates this data??

I'm going with magical Cygwin elves who look vaguely like hippos.

cgf

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