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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
Cc: Kenneth Johansson <ken@kenjo.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	Andreas Haumer <andreas@xss.co.at>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, willy@w.ods.org
Subject: Re: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:01:23 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021028150122.A16200@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200210271917.32650.landley@trommello.org>; from landley@trommello.org on Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 08:17:32PM -0500

> > > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > clone(..., CLONE_NEWNS, ...)
> >
> > After that subsequent namespace operations will only affect your process
> > and it's child processes.
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Question: if those processes mount something and then exit, does that 
> something get unmounted automatically or is this a mount point leak?

Both namespaces and vfsmounts are refcounted and garbage-collected
if their useage counts hits zero, so there will be no leak.

      reply	other threads:[~2002-10-28 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-26 18:53 rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-26 18:59 ` Alexander Viro
2002-10-26 19:12   ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-26 19:26     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-27  0:22       ` Andreas Steinmetz
2002-10-27 10:21       ` Andreas Haumer
2002-10-27 11:18         ` Willy Tarreau
2002-10-27 23:27           ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-10-28  9:05           ` Kasper Dupont
2002-10-27 15:02         ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-27 15:09           ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-28  0:03             ` Kenneth Johansson
2002-10-28  0:18               ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-28  1:17                 ` Rob Landley
2002-10-28 15:01                   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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