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From:   "J. R. Okajima" <hooanon05g@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] concrete /proc/mounts
To:     Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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        kolyshkin@gmail.com
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Date:   Mon, 27 May 2019 04:06:38 +0900
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Al Viro:
> Translation: let's generate the entire contents on the first read() and keep
> it until the sucker's closed; that way userland wont' see anything changing
> under it.  Oh, wait...
>
> NAK.

Do you mean that the change can hide other mountpoints which are
kept unchanged before/after read()?


J. R. Okajima