linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND v3 PATCH 3/3] vfs: make mounts and mountstats honor root dir like mountinfo does

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Message-ID: <20140929183222.GJ7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2014 19:32:22 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	"Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND v3 PATCH 3/3] vfs: make mounts and mountstats honor root
 dir like mountinfo does

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 10:05:23PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:29:55 +0400
> 
> Change show_vfsmnt() and show_vfsstat() to show mountpoints relative
> to the root directory and skip mountpoints outside of chroot jail
> the same way as show_mountinfo() does.

Sigh...  Repeat after me:  We  Do  Not  Break  Userland.  Care to explain
why that change won't do just that?
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