From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Miklos Szeredi Subject: Re: User-visible context-mount API Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:48:24 +0100 Message-ID: References: <28167.1516032442@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <1643.1516117204@warthog.procyon.org.uk> <20180117041727.GS13338@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20180117110633.zneqvnjzgxkv4yc2@ws.net.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20180117110633.zneqvnjzgxkv4yc2-xkT7n84Rsxv/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Karel Zak Cc: Al Viro , David Howells , Jeff Layton , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-fsdevel , Linux API , util-linux-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Karel Zak wrote: >> Documenting --make-private thing properly would also help. To me the >> wording "make private" strongly implies "I want to make submounts >> private to this instance". See for example rhbz#1432211. > > All propagation stuff is poorly documented in mount.8. It would be > nice to add section about it to the man page. Volunteer? (My skills to > explain this topic to end-users is pretty limited...) Propagation is common to mount(2) and there's some info in there already, but fine points like this are not explained. Maybe a new page in section 7? Thanks, Miklos