Add some documentation for the new listmount syscall. Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man2/listmount.2 | 111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 111 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man/man2/listmount.2 diff --git a/man/man2/listmount.2 b/man/man2/listmount.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a86f59a6d --- /dev/null +++ b/man/man2/listmount.2 @@ -0,0 +1,111 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 2024 Josef Bacik <josef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH listmount 2 (date) "Linux man-pages (unreleased)" +.SH NAME +listmount \- get a list of mount ID's +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.BR "#include <linux/mount.h>" " /* Definition of struct mnt_id_req constants */" +.B #include <unistd.h> +.P +.BI "int syscall(SYS_listmount, struct mnt_id_req * " req , +.BI " u64 * " mnt_ids ", size_t " nr_mnt_ids , +.BI " unsigned long " flags ); +.P +.B #include <linux/mount.h> +.P +.B struct mnt_id_req { +.BR " __u32 size;" " /* sizeof(struct mnt_id_req) */" +.BR " __u64 mnt_id;" " /* The parent mnt_id being searched */" +.BR " __u64 param;" " /* The next mnt_id we want to find */" +.B }; +.fi +.P +.IR Note : +glibc provides no wrapper for +.BR listmount (), +necessitating the use of +.BR syscall (2). +.SH DESCRIPTION +To access the mounts in your namespace, +you must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the user namespace. +.P +This function returns a list of mount IDs under the +.BR req.mnt_id . +This is meant to be used in conjuction with +.BR statmount (2) +in order to provide a way to iterate and discover mounted file systems. +.SS The mnt_id_req structure +.I req.size +is used by the kernel to determine which struct +.I mnt_id_req +is being passed in, +it should always be set to sizeof(struct mnt_id req). +.P +.I req.mnt_id +is the parent mnt_id that we will list from, +which can either be +.B LSMT_ROOT +which means the root mount of the current mount namespace, +or a mount ID obtained from either +.BR statx (2) +using +.B STATX_MNT_ID_UNIQUE +or from +.BR listmount (2) . +.P +.I req.param +is used to tell the kernel what mount ID to start the list from. +This is useful if multiple calls to +.BR listmount (2) +are required. +This can be set to the last mount ID returned + 1 in order to +resume from a previous spot in the list. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, the number of entries filled into +.I mnt_ids +is returned, 0 if there are no more mounts left. +On error, \-1 is returned, and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EPERM +Permission is denied for accessing this mount. +.TP +.B EFAULT +.I req +or +.I mnt_ids +is NULL or points to a location outside the process's +accessible address space. +.TP +.B EINVAL +Invalid flag specified in +.IR flags . +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I req +is of insufficient size to be utilized. +.B E2BIG +.I req +is too large, +the limit is the architectures page size. +.TP +.B ENOENT +The specified +.I req.mnt_id +doesn't exist. +.TP +.B ENOMEM +Out of memory (i.e., kernel memory). +.SH STANDARDS +Linux. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR statmount (2), +.BR statx (2) -- 2.43.0