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From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com,
	Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-man <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Questions re the new mount_setattr(2) manual page
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 21:30:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40d5616a-7404-850e-bc73-09d0b513b94b@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210810141125.nxmvnwpyjxajvxl4@wittgenstein>

On 8/10/21 4:11 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 09:12:14AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> One more question...
>>
>>>>       The propagation field is used to specify the propagation typ
>>>>       of the mount or mount tree.  Mount propagation options are
>>>>       mutually exclusive; that is, the propagation values behave
>>>>       like an enum.  The supported mount propagation types are:
>>
>> The manual page text doesn't actually say it, but if the 'propagation'
>> field is 0, then this means leave the propagation type unchanged, 
>> right? This of course should be mentioned in the manual page.
> 
> Yes, if none of the documented values is set the propagation is unchanged.

Thanks for the confirmation.

Cheers,

Michael


-- 
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-10 19:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-10  1:38 Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-10  7:12 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-10 14:11   ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-10 19:30     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) [this message]
2021-08-10 14:32 ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-10 21:06   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-11 10:07     ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12  5:36       ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-12  9:08         ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12 22:32           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-10 22:47 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-11 10:40   ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-12  5:36     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2021-08-12  8:38       ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-13  1:25         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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