On 05/23/2016 02:55 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > C is slave of B is slave of A. If a process can see (i.e. has under > its root) A and C but not B then for C it will show > master:B,propagate_from:A. This piece of information is shown because > it can't see the immediate master (B) and so cannot determine the > chain of propagation between the mounts it can see.
Thanks, Miklos! > Concrete example: Yep, that does it. Thanks for the walk through! One piece missing below though, in case anyone else tries to walk through. > # mount --bind / /mnt > # mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc > # mount --make-private /mnt > # mount --make-shared /mnt > # mkdir /tmp/etc > # mount --bind /mnt/etc /tmp/etc > # mount --make-slave /tmp/etc > # mount --make-shared /tmp/etc # mkdir /mnt/tmp/etc > # mount --bind /tmp/etc /mnt/tmp/etc > # mount --make-slave /mnt/tmp/etc > # cat /proc/self/mountinfo | grep /tmp/etc > 164 40 253:1 /etc /tmp/etc rw,relatime shared:100 master:97 - ... > # chroot /mnt > # cat /proc/self/mountinfo > 129 62 253:1 / / rw,relatime shared:97 - ... > 168 129 253:1 /etc /tmp/etc rw,relatime master:100 propagate_from:97 - ... Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/