Re: multimounting cdroms ???

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 16:17:11 EST


On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > >
> > > Well, it is necessary that the bindings are listed somewhere.
> > > Personally, I would prefer a /proc/vfsbind or something like that, and
> > > be done with it.
> >
> > Erm? They are already in /proc/mounts, for one thing...
>
> /proc/mounts is a bad location, I think; for one thing, the number of
> actual mount at least used to be :) fairly limited. Also, /proc/mounts
> is impossible to parse cleanly -- if you have mount points with spaces
> or
> \n or some such you can really wreck havoc (we need a standard escaping
> algorithm for /proc, or insert null terminators.)

Plan 9 folks did (in v3) something interesting: contents of /proc/<pid>/ns
is essentially a script that would reproduce your namespace starting from
the empty one. I'm not sure that it's such a great idea, but it may be
worth thinking about...

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