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Add way to query the children of a particular mount. This is a more flexible way to iterate the mount tree than having to parse /proc/self/mountinfo. Lookup the mount by the new 64bit mount ID. If a mount needs to be queried based on path, then statx(2) can be used to first query the mount ID belonging to the path. Return an array of new (64bit) mount ID's. Without privileges only mounts are listed which are reachable from the task's root. Folded into this patch are several later improvements. Keeping them separate would make the history pointlessly confusing: * Recursive listing of mounts is the default now (cf. [1]). * Remove explicit LISTMOUNT_UNREACHABLE flag (cf. [1]) and fail if mount is unreachable from current root. This also makes permission checking consistent with statmount() (cf. [3]). * Start listing mounts in unique mount ID order (cf. [2]) to allow continuing listmount() from a midpoint. * Allow to continue listmount(). The @request_mask parameter is renamed and to @param to be usable by both statmount() and listmount(). If @param is set to a mount id then listmount() will continue listing mounts from that id on. This allows listing mounts in multiple listmount invocations without having to resize the buffer. If @param is zero then the listing starts from the beginning (cf. [4]). * Don't return EOVERFLOW, instead return the buffer size which allows to detect a full buffer as well (cf. [4]). Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-6-mszeredi@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-2-mszeredi@redhat.com [1] (folded) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-3-mszeredi@redhat.com [2] (folded) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-4-mszeredi@redhat.com [3] (folded) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-5-mszeredi@redhat.com [4] (folded) [Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: various smaller fixes] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.