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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com,
	viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, containers@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] proc: Implement support for automounts in task directories
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:25:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081106172521.91061dcf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1abcd2kqk.fsf@frodo.ebiederm.org>

On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:48:35 -0800
ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:

> This is a genearl mechanism that is capable of removing
> any unused mounts on /proc in any directory.  As we flush
> the mounts when a processes dies this mechanism is tailored
> for flushing mounts in the per task and per task group
> directories.

What I'm missing here is any sense of what these patches are for,
where they're headed, what the big picture is, etc?

My vague guess is that perhaps it has something to do with mounting
procfs multiple times in separate containers.  How did I do?


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-07  1:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-06 10:38 [PATCH 1/7] vfs: Fix shrink_submounts Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:48 ` [PATCH 2/7] proc: Implement support for automounts in task directories Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:49   ` [PATCH 3/7] proc: Support multiple filesystems using the proc generic infrastructure Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:53     ` [PATCH 4/7] proc: Make /proc/net it's own filesystem Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:56       ` [PATCH 5/7] proc_net: Don't show the wrong /proc/net after unshare Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:57         ` [PATCH 6/7] proc_net: Simplify network namespace lookup Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-06 10:58           ` [PATCH 7/7] proc: Cleanup proc_flush_task Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  1:25   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-07  2:02     ` [PATCH 2/7] proc: Implement support for automounts in task directories Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  1:26   ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  2:05     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  2:49       ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  3:51         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  4:28           ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 15:51             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07 16:05               ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-07 16:58                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-13 23:39                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-19  0:07                   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-19  2:35                     ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-19 13:20                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  4:41   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-11-07 16:04     ` [PATCH] proc: Supply proc_shrink_automounts when CONFIG_PROC_FS=N Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-07  1:22 ` [PATCH 1/7] vfs: Fix shrink_submounts Andrew Morton
2008-11-07  2:06   ` Eric W. Biederman

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