Re: Which process context does /sbin/hotplug run in?

[Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>]

On May 15, 2006, at 15:59, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 12:17 am, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>>> I can CD into them endlessly, and both "ls -lR" and "find ."  
>>> report cycles in the tree, which surprised me that they had a  
>>> specific error message for that, actually.  Good enough for me. :)
>>
>> Odd, I'm unable to replicate that behavior here.  If I run "ls / 
>> var/sub2/sub2" I don't get any entries.  Find and ls -lR have  
>> error messages of that because it can occasionally be triggered  
>> with symlinks and such.
>
> Perhaps I copied it down wrong.  I did this in a 2.6.16 UML  
> instance...
>
> sh-3.00# mount -t tmpfs /tmp /tmp
> sh-3.00# cd /tmp
> sh-3.00# mkdir woot
> sh-3.00# mount --bind woot /var
> sh-3.00# cd /var
> sh-3.00# mkdir sub
> sh-3.00# mount --move /tmp sub
> sh-3.00# ls -lR
> .:
> total 0
> drwxrwxrwt  3 root root 60 May 15 15:57 sub
>
> ./sub:
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 60 May 15 15:57 woot
> ls: not listing already-listed directory: ./sub/woot
> sh-3.00# find .
> .
> ./sub
> find: Filesystem loop detected; `./sub/woot' has the same device  
> number and
> inode as a directory which is 2 levels higher in the filesystem  
> hierarchy.
> ./sub/woot
> sh-3.00#
>
> Works for me. :)

I get the exact same behavior, but:

sh-3.00# ls -alh /var/sub/woot/sub
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 40 May 15 18:09 .
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 60 May 15 18:09 ..
sh-3.00#

It does *not* recurse indefinitely here, because the mount tree is  
not recursive.  A bind mount (Or a --move, which is bind and umount - 
l), does not share submounts, so it's impossible to circularly link  
them.  This is why it's possible to do this:

mount --bind /var /apache1/bin
mount --bind /var /apache2/var
mount --bind /www1 /apache1/var/www
mount --bind /www2 /apache2/var/www

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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