Re: [patch 0/8] unprivileged mount syscall

Karel Zak
2007-04-10T10:33:45Z

On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 10:46:25AM -0700, Ram Pai wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 12:07 -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@szeredi.hu):
>
> > > - need to set up mount propagation from global namespace to private
> > > ones, mount(8) does not yet have options to configure propagation
> >
> > Hmm, I guess I get lost using my own little systems, and just assumed
> > that shared subtree functionality was making its way up into mount(8).
> > Ram, have you been working on that?
>
> It is in FC6. I dont know the status off upstream util-linux. I did
> submit the patch many times to Adrian Bunk (the then util-linux
> maintainer) and got no response. I have not pushed the patches to the
> new maintainer(Karel Zak?) though.

The "shared-subtree" patch has been applied:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=389fbea536e4308d9475fa2a89e53e188ce8a0e3;hp=939a997de0c761d29fb7530976ca20da4898703a

Karel

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