linux-kernel - Re: [patch 5/7] vfs: mountinfo: allow using process root

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Message-ID: <20080328020853.GB10722@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2008 02:08:53 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linuxram@...ibm.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 5/7] vfs: mountinfo: allow using process root

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 01:06:24PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...e.cz>
> 
> Allow /proc/<pid>/mountinfo to use the root of <pid> to calculate
> mountpoints.
> 
>  - move definition of 'struct proc_mounts' to <linux/mnt_namespace.h>
>  - add the process's namespace and root to this structure
>  - pass a pointer to 'struct proc_mounts' into seq_operations

NB: we might want to collect that stuff in one place.  Sharing details
between proc/base and namespace is not nice and it just got more hairy.
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