Re: [PATCH 12/28] VFS: Remove (now bogus) check_mnt

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:44:33AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
> check_mnt used to be used to see if a mountpoint was actually grafted or not
> to a namespace.  This was done because we didn't support mountpoints being
> attached to one another if they weren't associated with a namespace. We now
> support this, so all check_mnt calls are bogus.  The only exception is that
> pivot_root still requires all participants to exist within the same
> namespace.

did you audit the namespace code that it doesn't allow attachign to other
namespaces than the current?

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