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Subject: Re: CLONE_NEWNS and mount command?
From: Tom Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com>
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On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:01 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Huh?  a) /proc/mounts is the list for namespace of one who'd opened it
> (it's a symlink to /proc/self/mounts).  b) are you sure that you do
> not simply end up with chewing shared /etc/mtab?

Very possible if there really is an mtab file these days. I was
sorta hoping that the mount command used the /proc/mounts. I should
do my experiment again looking only at /proc/mounts I guess.

If there is a bug, maybe it is that a /etc/mtab file exists
at all :-).