Re: [patch] VFS: extend /proc/mounts

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 17 2008 11:33, Neil Brown wrote:
>On Thursday January 17, jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> 
>> On Jan 17 2008 00:43, Karel Zak wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> Seems like a plain bad idea to me.  There will be any number of home-made
>> >> /proc/mounts parsers and we don't know what they do.
>> >
>> > So, let's use /proc/mounts_v2  ;-)
>> 
>> Was not it like "don't use /proc for new things"?
>
>I thought it was "don't use /proc for new things that aren't process
>related".
>
>And as the mount table is per process......

You are right. I'm still in the world where CLONE_NEWNS is not used all
that much in the daily routine, either by the distro or by me.

>In the tradition of stat, statm, status, maybe the former should be
> /proc/$PID/mountm

What next - /proc/pid/mountus? :)
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