Re: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts

[Christoph Hellwig]

> > > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > clone(..., CLONE_NEWNS, ...)
> >
> > After that subsequent namespace operations will only affect your process
> > and it's child processes.
> 
> Cool.
> 
> Question: if those processes mount something and then exit, does that 
> something get unmounted automatically or is this a mount point leak?

Both namespaces and vfsmounts are refcounted and garbage-collected
if their useage counts hits zero, so there will be no leak.