Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 20:07:34 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>,
       Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, hch@infradead.org,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts
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Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > ... is the same as for the same question with "set of mounts" replaced
> > > with "environment variables".
> > 
> > Not quite.
> > 
> > After changing environment variables in .profile, you can copy them to
> > other shells using ". ~/.profile".
> > 
> > There is no analogous mechanism to copy namespaces.
> 
> Actually, after you add right mount xyzzy /foo lines into .profile,
> you can just . ~/.profile ;-).

Is there a mount command that can do that?  We're talking about
private mounts - invisible to other namespaces, which includes the
other shells.

If there was a /proc/NNN/namespace, that would do the trick :)

-- Jamie
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