On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:01 AM, Sean Silva <silvas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I saw MS_SLAVE used in the source code of systemd, but I couldn't > find information about it in the manpage for mount(2). > > The mount(1) manpage does point to > `Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt` which describes it > (although doesn't explicitly mention MS_SLAVE). > > After a bit of digging, it seems that MS_SLAVE is one of four related > flags which also include MS_SLAVE, MS_PRIVATE, and MS_UNBINDABLE which > are also missing. > > Manpage version is 3.35 according to the colophon. On Ubuntu Precise. > Online versions seem to be missing a description for this flag as > well. Yup. Unfortunately no one has documented these 4 flags so far. Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html