Re: [PATCH] private mounts

[Ram <linuxram@us.ibm.com>]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 01:33, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 08:07:34PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > ... is the same as for the same question with "set of mounts" replaced
> > > > > with "environment variables".
> > > > 
> > > > Not quite.
> > > > 
> > > > After changing environment variables in .profile, you can copy them to
> > > > other shells using ". ~/.profile".
> > > > 
> > > > There is no analogous mechanism to copy namespaces.
> > > 
> > > Actually, after you add right mount xyzzy /foo lines into .profile,
> > > you can just . ~/.profile ;-).
> > 
> > Is there a mount command that can do that?  We're talking about
> > private mounts - invisible to other namespaces, which includes the
> > other shells.
> > 
> > If there was a /proc/NNN/namespace, that would do the trick :)
> 
> I don't think you need a /proc/NNN/namespace, /proc/NNN/mounts already
> contains a mount table.  It's pretty trivial to write a small shellscript
> to parse that, compare with the current namespace and do all mount/umounts
> to make them fit the other processes namespace.  Real problem here are
> filesystems that don't implement ->show_options or do so only partially
> so that some options are lost.

The other problem is: How would new mounts  in any of these namespaces
propogate to other namespaces owned by the same user? 

I mean, how will the other namespace's belonging to the same user, be
able to pull the mounts into their namespaces?  shared subtree won't be
a solution because these namespaces won't have a parent-child
relationship to begin with, for the propogation to be set up.


RP



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