Re: [2.4.19] How to get the path name of a struct dentry

Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Wed, 12 Mar 2003 12:53:10 +0000


On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 01:38:42PM +0100, Torsten Foertsch wrote:
> > No. Esecially as there is not single "real" root.
>
> That means one can build a system with 2 (or more) completely independent file
> system areas combining chroot() and pivot_root(), doesn't it?

I'm talking about namesapce. Clone a new process with CLONE_NEWNS and all
modifications to the namespace are private to this process and it's children.

This way you can have e.g. process-private mounts.

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