On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 02:38:59PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The present situation of util-linux and mount is not quite clear to me. > On kernel.org under utils/util-linux nothing has happened for over a year, > and there is also an empty utils/util-linux-ng.
We use GIT for development, the utils/util-linux-ng is for releases. http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/ http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#util-linux-ng > Anyway, Dirk Gerrits, René Gabriël and Peter Kooijmans sent me > a patch to add support for shared subtrees to the mount from > util-linux 2.12r, and I put up the result for ftp at > ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/mount/mount-2.12r-ggk.tar.gz Hmm.. some distributions and also util-linux-ng already use Ram Pai's shared subtrees patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=commitdiff;h=389fbea536e4308d9475fa2a89e53e188ce8a0e3 > [By the way, this shared subtree stuff is a bit messy, > and impossible to support correctly by mount without help > from the kernel. So far the shared/slave/unbindable status > of mounts is not visible in /proc/mounts or /proc/$$/mountstats. Unfortunately, you're right. We need something like /proc/PID/mounts_propagation (see 2nd patch in): http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00136.html > The above mount makes a feeble attempt to record these flags > in /etc/mtab, but will fail in any nontrivial situation.] I don't think that mtab is a good place for this shared subtree stuff. The mtab needs to die. Karel -- Karel Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
