linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/7] vfs: mountinfo (v4)

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Message-Id: <E1JetJJ-0007h2-HQ@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:42:33 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	7eggert@....de
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/7] vfs: mountinfo (v4)

> > Another update that fixes Al's latest comments:
> > 
> >  - the per-sb options are merged into the fs-specific options
> >  - mount source is shown as a separate field (because commas are not
> >    escaped within it)
> >  - group id checking before allocation/freeing: this one doesn't
> >    actually make a difference for the moment (I hope) but Al's variant
> >    is cleaner
> >  - simplify ID allocation and freeing
> >  - dominator renaming
> >  - function header comment updating
> 
> Is it robust against mounting /dev/$'abc def\x0dghi'
> to ~/mnt/`perl -e 'print "a" x 4050'`?

It is.

> Besides that, I don't like having 'none' as the mount source. Instead, I
> like to e.g. mount proc /proc -t proc, this will put the important
> information into the first column of the mount(1) output, right where I
> start reading.

So do that, this patch doesn't force you to put 'none' in there.

Miklos
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