On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:27 PM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > David Howells was working on a mount notification mechanism: > > https://lwn.net/Articles/760714/ > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=notifications > > > > I don't know what is the status of this series. > > It's still alive. I just posted a new version on it. I'm hoping, possibly > futiley, to get it in in this merge window. > > David Hi all, this could cause a clash if I create a netns with name ending with .mounted. $ sudo ip/ip netns add ns1.mounted $ sudo ip/ip netns add ns1 Cannot create namespace file "/var/run/netns/ns1.mounted": File exists Cannot remove namespace file "/var/run/netns/ns1.mounted": Device or resource busy If you want to go along this road, please either: - disallow netns creation with names ending with .mounted - or properly document it in the manpage Regards, -- Matteo Croce per aspera ad upstream