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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-06 12:53:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2016-05-07 07:48:23 +0200 |
| commit | fb4bdaa1ea84f63c1745c273fe87753092171c50 (patch) | |
| tree | 488913c3b85be0232f1697703d7b0c19a5e8745b | |
| parent | 7be43378e6e21dd0313a4e7ac9491314a03e9e97 (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-fb4bdaa1ea84f63c1745c273fe87753092171c50.tar.gz | |
proc.5: Add some background on why /proc/PID/mountinfo was added
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man5/proc.5 | 11 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man5/proc.5 b/man5/proc.5 index cb85b9b2b9..85df02a450 100644 --- a/man5/proc.5 +++ b/man5/proc.5 @@ -1099,8 +1099,17 @@ and .TP .IR /proc/[pid]/mountinfo " (since Linux 2.6.26)" .\" This info adapted from Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +.\" commit 2d4d4864ac08caff5c204a752bd004eed4f08760 This file contains information about mount points. -It contains lines of the form: +It supplies various information +(e.g., propagation state, root of mount for bind mounts, +identifier for each mount and its parent) that is missing from the (older) +.IR /proc/[pid]/mounts +file, and fixes various other problems with that file +(e.g., nonextensibility, +failure to distinguish per-mount versus per-superblock options). + +The file contains lines of the form: .nf .ft CW |