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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 10:48:24 +0100
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Subject: Re: User-visible context-mount API
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	util-linux@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 12:06 PM, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:

>> Documenting  --make-private thing properly would also help.  To me the
>> wording "make private" strongly implies "I want to make submounts
>> private to this instance".  See for example rhbz#1432211.
>
> All propagation stuff is poorly documented in mount.8. It would be
> nice to add section about it to the man page. Volunteer? (My skills to
> explain this topic to end-users is pretty limited...)

Propagation is common to mount(2) and there's some info in there
already, but fine points like this are not explained.

Maybe a new page in section 7?

Thanks,
Miklos