Re: [gentoo-user] What to put in chroot mtab

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Friday 01 August 2014 11:07:26 Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Canek Peláez Valdés <caneko@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > And just for completeness, systemd actually requires /etc/mtab as a
> > link to /proc/self/mounts, so don't be surprised if software in the
> > future in Linux just assumes that.
> 
> Part of the reason for this is namespace support.  As namespaces
> become more popular the concept of a global list of mounts goes away,
> because every process on the system has its own view of the virtual
> filesystem.
> 
> Chroots are just a very primitive form of file namespaces when you
> think about it.

That's an interesting thought. So far I've ignored namespaces, but I can see 
some reading being needed soon.

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Regards
Peter