Re: [PATCH] private mounts

Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-24T20:18:36Z

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 10:08:13PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This simple patch adds support for private (or invisible) mounts. The
> rationale is to allow mounts to be private for a user but still in the
> global namespace.

As mentioned in the last -fsdevel thread a few times the idea of per-user
mounts is fundamentally flawed. Crossing a namespace boundary must be
explicit - using clone or a new unshare() syscall.