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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
To: ben.kuo.tw@proton.me
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man/man7/mount_namespaces.7: Add missing 'filesystemtype' argument to mount(2)
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:12:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <asp_5E4yvOEyhR3y@debian> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261004-mount-ns-mount-args-v1-1-a344b18c0c22@proton.me>

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Hi Ben,

> Date: 2026-10-04 16:49:17+0800
> From: Ben Kuo via B4 Relay <devnull+ben.kuo.tw.proton.me@kernel.org>
>
> From: Ben Kuo <ben.kuo.tw@proton.me>
> 
> The example call omits the 'filesystemtype' argument, so it passes
> four arguments to mount(2), which takes five.  As written, it fails
> to compile:
> 
> 	error: too few arguments to function 'mount'
> 
> Tested by compiling the corrected call with gcc 14.2.0 and running
> it after unshare(CLONE_NEWNS) on Linux 6.12 (Debian 13, arm64);
> findmnt(8) shows '/' with slave propagation.
> 
> Fixes: a2fc45a9f (2019-10-07; "mount_namespaces.7: It may be desirable to disable propagation after creating a namespace")
> Signed-off-by: Ben Kuo <ben.kuo.tw@proton.me>
> ---

Thanks!  I've applied the patch.


Have a lovely day!
Alex

>  man/man7/mount_namespaces.7 | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/man/man7/mount_namespaces.7 b/man/man7/mount_namespaces.7
> index 8ed43a34623310f5c0b6b2071815340b287415aa..8f9c8e6e147a42b85d9d2cc2c691037ef82395f5 100644
> --- a/man/man7/mount_namespaces.7
> +++ b/man/man7/mount_namespaces.7
> @@ -1051,7 +1051,7 @@ using a call such as the following:
>  .P
>  .in +4n
>  .EX
> -mount(NULL, "/", MS_SLAVE | MS_REC, NULL);
> +mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_SLAVE | MS_REC, NULL);
>  .EE
>  .in
>  .P
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 31d36870d5f239d485772f1dbf17948bc35bee80
> change-id: 20261004-mount-ns-mount-args-98990fdab699
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Ben Kuo <ben.kuo.tw@proton.me>
> 
> 
> 

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-10-04  8:49 [PATCH] man/man7/mount_namespaces.7: Add missing 'filesystemtype' argument to mount(2) Ben Kuo via B4 Relay
2026-10-10 18:12 ` Alejandro Colomar [this message]

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