linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group id

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Message-Id: <E1JfAKB-0000es-4E@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:52:35 +0100
From:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
To:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
CC:	miklos@...redi.hu, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 7/7] vfs: mountinfo: show dominating group id

> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:06:26PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > +propagate_from:X  mount is slave and receives propagation from peer group X (*)
> >  unbindable  mount is unbindable
> >  
> > +(*) X is the closest dominant peer group under the process's root.  If
> > +X is the immediate master of the mount, or if there's no dominant peer
> > +group under the same root, then only the "master:X" field is present
> > +and not the "propagate_from:X" field.
> 
> Humm...  How does one distinguish between these variants?  Searching
> in mountinfo for vfsmount with group ID of reported master?

Yeah.  We could show propagate_from: unconditionally, but it would be
redundant most of the time.

Miklos
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