Re: /etc/mtab and per-process namespaces

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:20:12PM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > 4) If you insist on having /etc/mtab the same file in all namespaces,
> > you obviously will have its contents not matching at least some
> > of them.  Either have it separate in each namespace where you want
> > to see it, or simply use /proc/self/mounts instead.
> 
> So /proc/mounts should be a symlink to /proc/self/mounts?

; ls -l /proc/mounts
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 11 Oct  4 20:13 /proc/mounts -> self/mounts
;

like that, perhaps?  IOW, it's been done that way for almost 4 years
already...