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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-20 14:21:25 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2016-06-30 06:08:31 +0200
commit124b24148b360119f0960e5d1b45f5ad2c39983c (patch)
treed75ac63fdd34879e9bd74fe199608362449f4c94
parente7fa660159cf98a08b67995a82ac251e14bef6b3 (diff)
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proc.5: Rework /proc/PID/mountinfo text on dominant peer groups
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man5/proc.520
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5
index c72adbb6b7..6e143b6904 100644
--- a/man5/proc.5
+++ b/man5/proc.5
@@ -1197,8 +1197,18 @@ This mount is slave to peer group
.TP
propagate_from:X
This mount is a slave and receives propagation from peer group
-.IR X
-(*).
+.IR X .
+.I X
+is the closest dominant peer group under the process's root.
+If
+.I X
+is the immediate master of the mount,
+or if there is no dominant peer group under the same root,
+then only the
+.I master:X
+field is present and not the
+.I propagate_from:X
+field.
.TP
.I unbindable
This mount is unbindable.
@@ -1206,12 +1216,6 @@ This mount is unbindable.
.IP
Parsers should ignore all unrecognized optional fields.
.IP
-(*) X is the closest dominant peer group under the process's root.
-If X is the immediate master of the mount,
-or if there is no dominant peer group under the same root,
-then only the "master:X" field is present
-and not the "propagate_from:X" field.
-
For more information on mount propagation see:
.I Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
in the Linux kernel source tree.