From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Date: 2018-06-01 06:26:57
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 01:08:38AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
Make it possible to clone a mount tree with a new pair of open flags that
are used in conjunction with O_PATH:
(1) O_CLONE_MOUNT - Clone the mount or mount tree at the path.
(2) O_NON_RECURSIVE - Don't clone recursively.
Err. I don't think we should use up two O_* flags for something
only useful for your new mount API. Don't we have a better place
to for these flags?
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-01 06:39:32
On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:26:54PM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 01:08:38AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
quoted
Make it possible to clone a mount tree with a new pair of open flags that
are used in conjunction with O_PATH:
(1) O_CLONE_MOUNT - Clone the mount or mount tree at the path.
(2) O_NON_RECURSIVE - Don't clone recursively.
Err. I don't think we should use up two O_* flags for something
only useful for your new mount API. Don't we have a better place
to for these flags?
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.
It's not just mount API; these can be used independently of that.
Think of the uses where you pass those to ...at() and you'll see
a bunch of applications of that thing.
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: 2018-06-01 08:27:45
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.
It's not just mount API; these can be used independently of that.
Think of the uses where you pass those to ...at() and you'll see
a bunch of applications of that thing.
I kind of agree with Christoph on this point. Yes, you can use the resultant
fd for other things, but that doesn't mean it has to be obtained initially
through open() or openat() rather than, say, a new pick_mount() syscall.
Further, having more parameters available gives us the opportunity to change
the settings on any mounts we create at the point of creation.
David
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-02 03:09:27
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:27:43AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
quoted
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.
It's not just mount API; these can be used independently of that.
Think of the uses where you pass those to ...at() and you'll see
a bunch of applications of that thing.
I kind of agree with Christoph on this point. Yes, you can use the resultant
fd for other things, but that doesn't mean it has to be obtained initially
through open() or openat() rather than, say, a new pick_mount() syscall.
Further, having more parameters available gives us the opportunity to change
the settings on any mounts we create at the point of creation.
open_subtree(int dirfd, const char *pathname, int flags), then? How would
flags be interpreted? What I see mapping at that thing is
* equivalent of O_PATH open
* clone subtree, O_PATH open root
* clone one mount, O_PATH open root
and apparently you want to add (orthogonal to that)
* make shared/slave/private/unbindable
* ditto with recursion?
* same for nodev/nosuid/noexec/noatime/nodiratime/relatime/ro/?
as well as usual AT_... flags (empty path, follow)
Choose the encoding...
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-02 03:43:00
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 04:09:14AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 09:27:43AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
quoted
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
quoted
Instead of overloading this on open having a specific syscalls just
seems like a much saner idea.
It's not just mount API; these can be used independently of that.
Think of the uses where you pass those to ...at() and you'll see
a bunch of applications of that thing.
I kind of agree with Christoph on this point. Yes, you can use the resultant
fd for other things, but that doesn't mean it has to be obtained initially
through open() or openat() rather than, say, a new pick_mount() syscall.
Further, having more parameters available gives us the opportunity to change
the settings on any mounts we create at the point of creation.
open_subtree(int dirfd, const char *pathname, int flags), then? How would
flags be interpreted? What I see mapping at that thing is
* equivalent of O_PATH open
* clone subtree, O_PATH open root
* clone one mount, O_PATH open root
and apparently you want to add (orthogonal to that)
* make shared/slave/private/unbindable
* ditto with recursion?
* same for nodev/nosuid/noexec/noatime/nodiratime/relatime/ro/?
as well as usual AT_... flags (empty path, follow)
Choose the encoding...
_If_ I'm interpreting that correctly, that should be something like a bitmap
of attributes to modify + values to set for each. Let's see -
propagation 1 + 2 bits
nodev 1 + 1
noexec 1 + 1
nosuid 1 + 1
ro 1 + 1
atime 1 + 3
That's 15 bits. On top of that, we have 1 bit for "clone or original"
and 1 bit for "recursive or single-mount". As well as AT_EMPTY_PATH,
and AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (inconvenient, since these are fixed bits). In
principle, that does fit into int, with some space to spare...
Is that what you have in mind?
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-02 04:04:38
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 04:42:56AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
_If_ I'm interpreting that correctly, that should be something like a bitmap
of attributes to modify + values to set for each. Let's see -
propagation 1 + 2 bits
nodev 1 + 1
noexec 1 + 1
nosuid 1 + 1
ro 1 + 1
atime 1 + 3
That's 15 bits. On top of that, we have 1 bit for "clone or original"
and 1 bit for "recursive or single-mount". As well as AT_EMPTY_PATH,
and AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT (inconvenient, since these are fixed bits). In
principle, that does fit into int, with some space to spare...
Is that what you have in mind?
TBH, I would probably prefer separate mount_setattr(2) for that kind
of work, with something like
int mount_setattr(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags, int attr)
*not* opening any files.
flags:
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE
attr:
MOUNT_SETATTR_DEV (1<<0)
MOUNT_SETATTR_NODEV (1<<0)|(1<<1)
MOUNT_SETATTR_EXEC (1<<2)
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOEXEC (1<<2)|(1<<3)
MOUNT_SETATTR_SUID (1<<4)
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOSUID (1<<4)|(1<<5)
MOUNT_SETATTR_RW (1<<6)
MOUNT_SETATTR_RO (1<<6)|(1<<7)
MOUNT_SETATTR_RELATIME (1<<8)
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOATIME (1<<8)|(1<<9)
MOUNT_SETATTR_NODIRATIME (1<<8)|(2<<9)
MOUNT_SETATTR_STRICTATIME (1<<8)|(3<<9)
MOUNT_SETATTR_PRIVATE (1<<11)
MOUNT_SETATTR_SHARED (1<<11)|(1<<12)
MOUNT_SETATTR_SLAVE (1<<11)|(2<<12)
MOUNT_SETATTR_UNBINDABLE (1<<11)|(3<<12)
With either openat() used as in this series, or explicit
int open_tree(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags)
returning a descriptor, with flags being
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE, AT_CLONE
with AT_RECURSIVE without AT_CLONE being an error. Hell, might
even add AT_UMOUNT for "open root and detach, to be dissolved on
close", incompatible with AT_CLONE.
Comments?
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Date: 2018-06-02 15:45:23
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
TBH, I would probably prefer separate mount_setattr(2) for that kind
of work, with something like
int mount_setattr(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags, int attr)
*not* opening any files.
flags:
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE
I would call these MOUNT_SETATTR_* rather than AT_*.
So, I like this generally, some notes though:
I wonder if this should be two separate parameters, a mask and the settings?
I'm not sure that's worth it since some of the mask bits would cover multiple
settings.
Also, should NODIRATIME be separate from the other *ATIME flags? I do also
like treating some of these settings as enumerations rather than a set of
bits.
I would make the prototype:
int mount_setattr(int dirfd, const char *path,
unsigned int flags, unsigned int attr,
void *reserved5);
Further, do we want to say you can either change the propagation type *or*
reconfigure the mountpoint restrictions, but not both at the same time?
With either openat() used as in this series, or explicit
int open_tree(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags)
Maybe open_mount(), grab_mount() or pick_mount()?
I wonder if fsopen()/fspick() should be create_fs()/open_fs()...
returning a descriptor, with flags being
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE, AT_CLONE
with AT_RECURSIVE without AT_CLONE being an error.
You also need an O_CLOEXEC equivalent.
I would make it:
OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC 0x00000001
OPEN_TREE_EMPTY_PATH 0x00000002
OPEN_TREE_FOLLOW_SYMLINK 0x00000004
OPEN_TREE_NO_AUTOMOUNT 0x00000008
OPEN_TREE_CLONE 0x00000010
OPEN_TREE_RECURSIVE 0x00000020
adding the follow-symlinks so that you don't grab a symlink target by
accident. (Can you actually mount on top of a symlink?)
Hell, might even add AT_UMOUNT for "open root and detach, to be dissolved on
close", incompatible with AT_CLONE.
Cute. Guess you could do:
fd = open_mount(..., OPEN_TREE_DETACH);
mount_setattr(fd, "",
MOUNT_SETATTR_EMPTY_PATH,
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOSUID, NULL);
move_mount(fd, "", ...);
David
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-02 17:50:02
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 04:45:21PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
TBH, I would probably prefer separate mount_setattr(2) for that kind
of work, with something like
int mount_setattr(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags, int attr)
*not* opening any files.
flags:
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE
I would call these MOUNT_SETATTR_* rather than AT_*.
Why? AT_EMPTY_PATH/AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT are common with other ...at()
syscalls; AT_RECURSIVE - maybe, but it's still more like AT_...
namespace fodder, IMO.
So, I like this generally, some notes though:
I wonder if this should be two separate parameters, a mask and the settings?
I'm not sure that's worth it since some of the mask bits would cover multiple
settings.
Nah, better put those bits in the same word, as in above. Here bits 0, 2, 4, 6,
8 and 11 tell which attributes are to be modified, with values to set living
in bits 1, 3, 5, 7, 9--10 and 12--13. Look at the constants above..
Also, should NODIRATIME be separate from the other *ATIME flags? I do also
like treating some of these settings as enumerations rather than a set of
bits.
Huh? That's precisely what I'm doing there: bit 8 is "want to change atime
settings", bits 9 and 10 hold a 4-element enumeration (rel/no/nodir/strict).
Similar for propagation settings (bit 11 indicates that we want to set those,
bits 12 and 13 - 4-element enum)...
I would make the prototype:
int mount_setattr(int dirfd, const char *path,
unsigned int flags, unsigned int attr,
void *reserved5);
Further, do we want to say you can either change the propagation type *or*
reconfigure the mountpoint restrictions, but not both at the same time?
Why? MOUNT_SETATTR_PRIVATE | MOUNT_NOATIME | MOUNT_SUID, i.e. 00101100010000,
i.e. 0xb10 for "turn nosuid off, switch atime polcy to noatime, change propagation
to private, leave everything else as-is"...
And for fsck sake, what's that "void *reserved5" for?
quoted
With either openat() used as in this series, or explicit
int open_tree(int dirfd, const char *path, int flags)
Maybe open_mount(), grab_mount() or pick_mount()?
I wonder if fsopen()/fspick() should be create_fs()/open_fs()...
quoted
returning a descriptor, with flags being
AT_EMPTY_PATH, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_RECURSIVE, AT_CLONE
with AT_RECURSIVE without AT_CLONE being an error.
You also need an O_CLOEXEC equivalent.
Point.
I would make it:
OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC 0x00000001
Why not O_CLOEXEC, as with epoll_create()/timerfd_create()/etc.?
Why? How are those different from normal AT_EMPTY_PATH/AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT?
OPEN_TREE_CLONE 0x00000010
OPEN_TREE_RECURSIVE 0x00000020
adding the follow-symlinks so that you don't grab a symlink target by
accident. (Can you actually mount on top of a symlink?)
You can't - mount(2) uses LOOKUP_FOLLOW for mountpoint (well, user_path(),
actually).
quoted
Hell, might even add AT_UMOUNT for "open root and detach, to be dissolved on
close", incompatible with AT_CLONE.
Cute. Guess you could do:
fd = open_mount(..., OPEN_TREE_DETACH);
mount_setattr(fd, "",
MOUNT_SETATTR_EMPTY_PATH,
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOSUID, NULL);
move_mount(fd, "", ...);
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-03 00:56:01
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 06:49:58PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
quoted
quoted
Hell, might even add AT_UMOUNT for "open root and detach, to be dissolved on
close", incompatible with AT_CLONE.
Cute. Guess you could do:
fd = open_mount(..., OPEN_TREE_DETACH);
mount_setattr(fd, "",
MOUNT_SETATTR_EMPTY_PATH,
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOSUID, NULL);
move_mount(fd, "", ...);
Hadn't added that yet, but as for the rest of open_tree() - see
vfs.git#mount-open_tree. open() and its flags are not touched at all.
Other changes compared to the previous:
* may_mount() is required for OPEN_TREE_CLONE
* sys_ni.c cruft is dropped - those make no sense until and unless
those syscalls become conditional.
Appears to work, combined with move_mount() it yields eqiuvalents of
mount --{move,bind,rbind}. Combined with mount_setattr(2) (when that
gets added) we'll get mount -o remount,bind,nodev et.al.
(including the currently absent whole-subtree versions) and
mount --make-{r,}{shared,slave,private,unbindable}
It also can be used to get an isolated subtree usable for ....at()
stuff.
The addition of syscall itself is done by the following and I'd really
like linux-abi folks to comment on that puppy
commit 6cfba4dd99b10278c2156c8d4fced2eddedf167f
Author: Al Viro [off-list ref]
Date: Sat Jun 2 19:42:22 2018 -0400
new syscall: open_tree(2)
open_tree(dfd, pathname, flags)
Returns an O_PATH-opened file descriptor or an error.
dfd and pathname specify the location to open, in usual
fashion (see e.g. fstatat(2)). flags should be an OR of
some of the following:
* AT_PATH_EMPTY, AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT, AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW -
same meanings as usual
* OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC - make the resulting descriptor
close-on-exec
* OPEN_TREE_CLONE or OPEN_TREE_CLONE | AT_RECURSIVE -
instead of opening the location in question, create a detached
mount tree matching the subtree rooted at location specified by
dfd/pathname. With AT_RECURSIVE the entire subtree is cloned,
without it - only the part within in the mount containing the
location in question. In other words, the same as mount --rbind
or mount --bind would've taken. The detached tree will be
dissolved on the final close of obtained file. Creation of such
detached trees requires the same capabilities as doing mount --bind.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro [off-list ref]
@@ -342,6 +342,7 @@ 331 common pkey_free __x64_sys_pkey_free 332 common statx __x64_sys_statx 333 common io_pgetevents __x64_sys_io_pgetevents+339 common open_tree __x64_sys_open_tree # # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t offset,/* File is capable of returning -EAGAIN if I/O will block */#define FMODE_NOWAIT ((__force fmode_t)0x8000000)+/* File represents mount that needs unmounting */+#define FMODE_NEED_UNMOUNT ((__force fmode_t)0x10000000)+/**Flagforrw_copy_check_uvectorandcompat_rw_copy_check_uvector*thatindicatesthattheyshouldcheckthecontentsoftheiovecare
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_pkey_alloc(unsigned long flags, unsigned long init_val);asmlinkagelongsys_pkey_free(intpkey);asmlinkagelongsys_statx(intdfd,constchar__user*path,unsignedflags,unsignedmask,structstatx__user*buffer);-+asmlinkagelongsys_open_tree(intdfd,constchar__user*path,unsignedflags);/**Architecture-specificsystemcalls
@@ -90,5 +90,7 @@#define AT_STATX_FORCE_SYNC 0x2000 /* - Force the attributes to be sync'd with the server */#define AT_STATX_DONT_SYNC 0x4000 /* - Don't sync attributes with the server */+#define AT_RECURSIVE 0x8000 /* Apply to the entire subtree */+#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_FCNTL_H */
On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 2:55 AM, Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
On Sat, Jun 02, 2018 at 06:49:58PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
quoted
quoted
quoted
Hell, might even add AT_UMOUNT for "open root and detach, to be dissolved on
close", incompatible with AT_CLONE.
Cute. Guess you could do:
fd = open_mount(..., OPEN_TREE_DETACH);
mount_setattr(fd, "",
MOUNT_SETATTR_EMPTY_PATH,
MOUNT_SETATTR_NOSUID, NULL);
move_mount(fd, "", ...);
Hadn't added that yet, but as for the rest of open_tree() - see
vfs.git#mount-open_tree. open() and its flags are not touched at all.
Other changes compared to the previous:
* may_mount() is required for OPEN_TREE_CLONE
* sys_ni.c cruft is dropped - those make no sense until and unless
those syscalls become conditional.
Appears to work, combined with move_mount() it yields eqiuvalents of
mount --{move,bind,rbind}. Combined with mount_setattr(2) (when that
gets added) we'll get mount -o remount,bind,nodev et.al.
fsopen = create fsfd
fsmount = fsfd -> mountfd & set attr on mountfd & attach mountfd
fspick = path -> fsfd
move_mount = attach mountfd or move existing
fsinfo = info from path
open_tree = new mountfd from path or clone
mount_setattr = set attr on mountfd
Notice that fsmount() encompasses mount_setattr() + move_mount()
functionality. Split those out and leave fsmount() to actually do
the "fsfd ->mountfd" translation?
fsinfo() name suggests it's in the same class as
fsopen/fsmount/fspick, operating on fsfd object, but's it's not and I
think that's slightly confusing.
Rename move_mount() -> mount_move()?
Also does it make sense to make the cloning behavior of open_tree()
optional? Without cloning it's just a plain open(O_PATH). That way
it could be renamed mount_clone().
Thanks,
Miklos
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-04 15:52:11
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:34:44PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
fsopen = create fsfd
fsmount = fsfd -> mountfd & set attr on mountfd & attach mountfd
fspick = path -> fsfd
move_mount = attach mountfd or move existing
fsinfo = info from path
open_tree = new mountfd from path or clone
mount_setattr = set attr on mountfd
Notice that fsmount() encompasses mount_setattr() + move_mount()
functionality. Split those out and leave fsmount() to actually do
the "fsfd ->mountfd" translation?
Might make sense.
fsinfo() name suggests it's in the same class as
fsopen/fsmount/fspick, operating on fsfd object, but's it's not and I
think that's slightly confusing.
Rename move_mount() -> mount_move()?
mount_move_bikeshed_bikeshed_bikeshed(), surely?
Also does it make sense to make the cloning behavior of open_tree()
optional? Without cloning it's just a plain open(O_PATH). That way
it could be renamed mount_clone().
Umm... I'm not sure about that one. If nothing else, OPEN_TREE_DETACH
might be a good idea, in which case cloning is not the primary effect;
hell knows.
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Date: 2018-06-04 15:59:40
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 04:52:05PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:34:44PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
quoted
fsopen = create fsfd
fsmount = fsfd -> mountfd & set attr on mountfd & attach mountfd
fspick = path -> fsfd
move_mount = attach mountfd or move existing
fsinfo = info from path
open_tree = new mountfd from path or clone
mount_setattr = set attr on mountfd
Notice that fsmount() encompasses mount_setattr() + move_mount()
functionality. Split those out and leave fsmount() to actually do
the "fsfd ->mountfd" translation?
Might make sense.
FWIW, to make it clear: fsmount(2) in this series actually does *NOT*
attach it to the tree. Commit message definitely needs updating - as it
is, it's
+SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fsmount, int, fs_fd, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, ms_flags,
+ void *, reserved4, void *, reserved5)
PS: IMO these reserved... arguments are in bad taste; if anyone has good reasons
for that practice in ABI design, I'd like to hear those.
Why do we need OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC? Wouldn't we be better off just making
the fd returned by open_tree implicitly close-on-exec? I can think of
no good reason for these file descriptors to be inherited across exec()
and if someone comes up with such a reason, fcntl(F_SETFD) is not an
expensive call to make.
Why do we need OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC? Wouldn't we be better off just making
the fd returned by open_tree implicitly close-on-exec? I can think of
no good reason for these file descriptors to be inherited across exec()
How are they different from any file descriptor? It's not as if it was
something usable only for mounting stuff - again, you can use them
with any ...at() syscalls.
and if someone comes up with such a reason, fcntl(F_SETFD) is not an
expensive call to make.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 5:52 PM, Al Viro [off-list ref] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 12:34:44PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
quoted
fsopen = create fsfd
fsmount = fsfd -> mountfd & set attr on mountfd & attach mountfd
fspick = path -> fsfd
move_mount = attach mountfd or move existing
fsinfo = info from path
open_tree = new mountfd from path or clone
mount_setattr = set attr on mountfd
Notice that fsmount() encompasses mount_setattr() + move_mount()
functionality. Split those out and leave fsmount() to actually do
the "fsfd ->mountfd" translation?
Might make sense.
FWIW, to make it clear: fsmount(2) in this series actually does *NOT*
attach it to the tree.
Ah, that leaves the mount_setattr() functionality to split out. I'd
be more happy to rid this new API of all the old MS_* crap and have
have a new set of attributes, that just apply to mounts. It will
also need two args: a bitmap of new attributes and a mask to tell us
which attributes to change.
Commit message definitely needs updating - as it
is, it's
+SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fsmount, int, fs_fd, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, ms_flags,
+ void *, reserved4, void *, reserved5)
PS: IMO these reserved... arguments are in bad taste; if anyone has good reasons
for that practice in ABI design, I'd like to hear those.
Agreed. A flags argument is often wise to add even if currently
unused (and should be checked for undefined flags), but adding a
random number of pointers doesn't seem to make a lot of sense.
quoted
fsinfo() name suggests it's in the same class as
fsopen/fsmount/fspick, operating on fsfd object, but's it's not and I
think that's slightly confusing.
Rename move_mount() -> mount_move()?
mount_move_bikeshed_bikeshed_bikeshed(), surely?
Consistent naming for related functions... not unheard of in API
design. The above set definitely does not qualify.
quoted
Also does it make sense to make the cloning behavior of open_tree()
optional? Without cloning it's just a plain open(O_PATH). That way
it could be renamed mount_clone().
Umm... I'm not sure about that one. If nothing else, OPEN_TREE_DETACH
might be a good idea, in which case cloning is not the primary effect;
hell knows.
So conceptually we have the following distinct mount tree operations:
treefd = clone(path);
treefd = detach(path);
attach(treefd, path);
move(path1, path2);
The detach/move/attach trio are more related in functionality, while
clone and detach have the same signature. I'm not sure either.
Thanks,
Miklos
Why do we need OPEN_TREE_CLOEXEC? Wouldn't we be better off just making
the fd returned by open_tree implicitly close-on-exec? I can think of
no good reason for these file descriptors to be inherited across exec()
How are they different from any file descriptor? It's not as if it was
something usable only for mounting stuff - again, you can use them
with any ...at() syscalls.
Defaulting to close on exec helps keep out clutter from the API.
Is there a disadvantage to needing an explicit fcntl(F_SETFD) call to
disable close on exec?
Thanks,
Miklos