On Tue, 2 Jul 2002, Paul Menage wrote:
>
> This patch causes /proc/mounts to only display entries for mountpoints
> within the current process root. This makes df and friends behave more
> nicely in a chroot jail or with rootfs.
>
> Most of the logic in proc_check_root() is moved to a new function,
> is_namespace_subdir(), which checks whether the given mount/dentry
> refers to a subdirectory of the process root directory in the current
> namespace. show_vfsmount() now returns without adding an output line if
> is_namespace_subdir() returns false for a given mountpoint.
That looks nice, but keep in mind that behaviour of getmntent(3) in chroot
jails is a traditional misfeature. Hopefully nothing important relies on it,
but...
As far as I'm concerned patch (and behaviour change) are fine. Let's do it
and see if anybody screams...
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