From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:56:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468652E2.4050901@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070630094446.GB22889@infradead.org>
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> The following additional fields are appended to each record
>> in /proc/mounts
>
> NACK. Adding anything to the format will confuse the hell out of
> existing parsers. We really want something like your /proc/<pid>/mounts_new,
> except mounts_new should have a better name (/proc/<pid>/ns anyone? :))
>
Is that conjecture, or do you have evidence to that effect? Most users
of this file are using it via the glibc interfaces, and there probably
aren't all that many users of it in the first place.
This was debated in some detail earlier in this thread.
(Note: this patch is still wrong, since it appends the new fields in the
wrong place.)
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-30 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-20 20:57 Adding subroot information to /proc/mounts, or obtaining that through other means H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 21:03 ` Al Viro
2007-06-20 21:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <46799A31.10301-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 16:20 ` Ram Pai
[not found] ` <1182442837.3342.13.camel-kj2lFfaA5cHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 16:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <467AA76F.9090107-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 17:20 ` Ram Pai
2007-06-21 17:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <467AB5EE.3030909-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 17:43 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-22 6:44 ` Ram Pai
[not found] ` <1182494654.2812.22.camel-kj2lFfaA5cHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-22 7:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-22 7:34 ` Ram Pai
2007-06-22 7:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <20070625214640.GC29058@ram.us.ibm.com>
2007-06-25 22:00 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree Ram Pai
[not found] ` <1182808816.2816.7.camel-kj2lFfaA5cHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-26 8:01 ` Karel Zak
2007-06-26 14:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-30 9:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-30 12:56 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
[not found] ` <468652E2.4050901-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-11 10:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-07-11 15:42 ` Ram Pai
[not found] ` <20070625214640.GC29058-kj2lFfaA5cHMbYB6QlFGEg@public.gmane.org>
2007-07-16 18:46 ` [RFC2 " Ram Pai
2007-06-20 22:33 ` Adding subroot information to /proc/mounts, or obtaining that through other means Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <4679AB39.4010909-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4679AD0F.3040207-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:48 ` Chuck Lever
2007-06-20 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4679B0C5.3030102-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 23:02 ` Chuck Lever
[not found] ` <20070620210343.GQ21478-rfM+Q5joDG/XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:24 ` Karel Zak
[not found] ` <20070620222437.GY7226-CxBs/XhZ2BtHjqfyn1fVYA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 16:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-21 16:49 ` Serge E. Hallyn
[not found] ` <20070621164907.GB28311-6s5zFf/epYLPQpwDFJZrxKsjOiXwFzmk@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 16:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-28 14:53 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <20070628145308.GD5339-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-28 15:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <467994BD.6000403-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:05 ` Karel Zak
2007-06-20 22:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <20070620220551.GX7226-CxBs/XhZ2BtHjqfyn1fVYA@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-20 22:41 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2007-06-20 22:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <4679AE5E.4050001-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 19:14 ` Hans-Peter Jansen
[not found] ` <200706212114.25705.hpj-2x7n3sizJbFeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 19:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-06-20 22:55 ` Nix
2007-06-21 10:45 ` Miklos Szeredi
[not found] ` <E1I1KA8-0007Fu-00-VFwzv6uONVrxNFs70CDYszOMxtEWgIxa@public.gmane.org>
2007-06-21 19:42 ` Nix
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