Re: [PATCH v3 07/12] man/man2/fsmount.2: document "new" mount API

[Aleksa Sarai]

On 2025-08-20, Askar Safin <safinaskar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  ---- On Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:33:04 +0400  Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote --- 
>  >   Unlike open_tree(2) with OPEN_TREE_CLONE, fsmount() can only be called
>  >   once in the lifetime of a filesystem context.
> 
> Weird. open_tree doesn't get filesystem context as argument at all.
> I suggest just this:
> 
>   fsmount() can only be called
>   once in the lifetime of a filesystem context.

The reason I wanted to include the comparison is that you can create
multiple mount objects from the same underlying object using
open_tree(2) but that's not possible with fsmount(2) (at least, not
without creating a new filesystem context each time).

-- 
Aleksa Sarai
Senior Software Engineer (Containers)
SUSE Linux GmbH
https://www.cyphar.com/

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