Glib bug #625552

[Lanoxx <lanoxx gmx net>]

Hi everyone,

I would like to draw attention once more to bug #625552 which is:
"wrong behaviour of GVolume GVolumeMonitor related functions with mount 
--bind"

The bug is known since 2 and a half years and confirmed in Ubuntu [1] 
and Debian [2], but should most likely exist in any other distribution. 
Just today I changed my fstab to use a bind mount again and so naturally 
was reminded of this bug:

UUID=53440C2D78774B48                                 /mnt/2TB ntfs-3g 
uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0037,dmask=0027 0 0
/mnt/2TB/MyDocuments /home/xyz/MyDocuments none bind 0 0

I have tried to fix it myself several times but I really lack some good 
understanding in the code. It would be quite nice to know who is the 
current maintainer of this code section (glib/gio) or someone familiar 
with the sections in glib/gio/gunixmounts.c.

I think with a little more insight into the details of GVolumeMonitor 
and GMount it should be possible to come up with a fix. The basic 
details are already mentioned in the bug reports at bgo and launchpad.

IMHO there are two options to solve this. Either return a GMount mount 
point for the device such that nautilus shows it as already mounted and 
leads to the same folder as the bind mount, or not show it at all. The 
latter one being the prefered solution.

Kind Regards
Lanoxx

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glib2.0/+bug/452049
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=601784

P.S. CC-ing nautilus, maybe someone of the nautilus developer could also 
give an advice about how glib needs to be fixed to avid this problem.