On Friday 01 August 2014 11:07:26 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <[email protected]> wrote: > > And just for completeness, systemd actually requires /etc/mtab as a > > link to /proc/self/mounts, so don't be surprised if software in the > > future in Linux just assumes that. > > Part of the reason for this is namespace support. As namespaces > become more popular the concept of a global list of mounts goes away, > because every process on the system has its own view of the virtual > filesystem. > > Chroots are just a very primitive form of file namespaces when you > think about it.
That's an interesting thought. So far I've ignored namespaces, but I can see some reading being needed soon. -- Regards Peter
