Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 16:09:41 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
       raven@themaw.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/28] VFS: Remove (now bogus) check_mnt
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On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 10:44:33AM -0400, Mike Waychison wrote:
> check_mnt used to be used to see if a mountpoint was actually grafted or not
> to a namespace.  This was done because we didn't support mountpoints being
> attached to one another if they weren't associated with a namespace. We now
> support this, so all check_mnt calls are bogus.  The only exception is that
> pivot_root still requires all participants to exist within the same
> namespace.

did you audit the namespace code that it doesn't allow attachign to other
namespaces than the current?

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