Re: [PATCH 12/18] shared mount handling: bind and rbind

Miklos Szeredi
2005-11-08T15:55:43Z

> No. As explained in the same earlier threads; without this change the
> behavior of shared-subtrees leads to inconsistency and confusion in some
> scenarios.
>
> Under the premise that no application should depend on this behavior
> (most-recent-mount-visible v/s top-most-mount-visible),

The strongest argument against was that

mount foo .; umount .

would no longer be a no-op.

> Al Viro permitted this change. And this is certainly the right
> behavior.

Which is a contradiction in term, since you are saying that
applications _do_ depend on it.

Miklos