Re: [PATCH] private mounts

Jamie Lokier
2005-04-25T19:10:07Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > ... is the same as for the same question with "set of mounts" replaced
> > > with "environment variables".
> >
> > Not quite.
> >
> > After changing environment variables in .profile, you can copy them to
> > other shells using ". ~/.profile".
> >
> > There is no analogous mechanism to copy namespaces.
>
> Actually, after you add right mount xyzzy /foo lines into .profile,
> you can just . ~/.profile ;-).

Is there a mount command that can do that? We're talking about
private mounts - invisible to other namespaces, which includes the
other shells.

If there was a /proc/NNN/namespace, that would do the trick :)

-- Jamie