From: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mount namespace : who mounted what ?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:14:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C08D1EF.4000104@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100604040158.GZ31073@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On 06/04/2010 06:01 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 10:04:13PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was wondering, in a new mount namespace, if it is possible to know
>> which mount points were inherited and which were mounted in a new
>> namespace ?
>>
>> I looked at /proc/<pid>/mountinfo and investigated a bit on the
>> mount id, but this one is not reliable as it changes in the new
>> namespace. The /proc/<pid>/mounts file shows all the mount points
>> visible for the process inherited or not.
>>
> No more than "had it been this process that mmaped that area or was it
> inherited from the parent?"
>
Ok, thanks.
I thought it may be interessting to add this information in the procfs
(eg. /proc/<pid>/mountprivate) but wrt your remark that should have no
sense as, to be consistent, we should do the same for all kind of
inherited resources.
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2010-06-03 20:04 mount namespace : who mounted what ? Daniel Lezcano
2010-06-04 4:01 ` Al Viro
2010-06-04 10:14 ` Daniel Lezcano [this message]
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