>>> Are mount namespaces handled in this output? >> >> Could you clarify this moment, i'm not sure i get it. > > I changed how I asked this question in my review of the documentation, > but it looks like these symlinks aren't "regular" symlinks (that are > up to the follower to have access to the file system path shown), but > rather they bypass VFS. As a result, I'm wondering how things like > mount namespaces might change this behavior: what is shown, the path > from the perspective of the target, or from the viewer (which may be > in separate mount namespaces).
These work just like the /proc/$pid/fd/$n links do. When you readlink on it the d_path() is called which walks up the dentry/vfsmnt tree until it reaches either current root or the global one. For "another" mount namespace case it produces the path relative to this namespace's root. Thanks, Pavel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
