From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] VFS: Augment /proc/mount with subroot and shared-subtree Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 08:56:02 -0400 Message-ID: <468652E2.4050901@zytor.com> References: <20070620210343.GQ21478@ftp.linux.org.uk> <46799A31.10301@zytor.com> <1182442837.3342.13.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467AB5EE.3030909@zytor.com> <1182494654.2812.22.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467B7509.8010106@zytor.com> <1182497690.2812.54.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <467B7F6F.4030007@zytor.com> <20070625214640.GC29058@ram.us.ibm.com> <1182808816.2816.7.camel@ram.us.ibm.com> <20070630094446.GB22889@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Christoph Hellwig , Ram Pai , "H. Peter Anvin" , Al Viro , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, util-linux-ng@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:56715 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755998AbXF3NH7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:07:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070630094446.GB22889@infradead.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.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//mounts_new, > except mounts_new should have a better name (/proc//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