diff --git a/cmds-send.c b/cmds-send.c
index 53e9a53d..43ea06b5 100644
--- a/cmds-send.c
+++ b/cmds-send.c
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int find_mount_root(const char *path, char **mount_root)
 		return -errno;
 	close(fd);
 
-	mnttab = fopen("/proc/mounts", "r");
+	mnttab = fopen("/proc/self/mounts", "r");
 	if (!mnttab)
 		return -errno;
 
diff --git a/utils.c b/utils.c
index 81cae6d1..3c9701dd 100644
--- a/utils.c
+++ b/utils.c
@@ -997,7 +997,7 @@ int check_mounted_where(int fd, const char *file, char *where, int size,
 	}
 
 	/* iterate over the list of currently mountes filesystems */
-	if ((f = setmntent ("/proc/mounts", "r")) == NULL)
+	if ((f = setmntent ("/proc/self/mounts", "r")) == NULL)
 		return -errno;
 
 	while ((mnt = getmntent (f)) != NULL) {