From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754631AbYKGB0T (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:26:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751101AbYKGB0K (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:26:10 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:44060 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751042AbYKGB0J (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:26:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:25:21 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adobriyan@gmail.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, containers@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] proc: Implement support for automounts in task directories Message-Id: <20081106172521.91061dcf.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:48:35 -0800 ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: > This is a genearl mechanism that is capable of removing > any unused mounts on /proc in any directory. As we flush > the mounts when a processes dies this mechanism is tailored > for flushing mounts in the per task and per task group > directories. What I'm missing here is any sense of what these patches are for, where they're headed, what the big picture is, etc? My vague guess is that perhaps it has something to do with mounting procfs multiple times in separate containers. How did I do?