On 14/9/23 17:43, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sept 2023 at 11:36, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, one concern is that humans confuse the old and the new ID.
I also think it makes sense to allow the new interfaces to look up the
mount based on either the old or the new ID. But I could be wrong
Hm, mount id recycling may happen so quickly that for service restarts
with a lot of mounts this becomes mostly useless...
Agreed. The old ID is mostly useful for human interaction.
there, since that might encourage bad code. Maybe the new interface
should only use take the new ID, which means no mixed use of
/proc/$$/mountinfo and statmnt/listmnt.
... so I think that is indeed the better way of doing things. There's no
need to encourage userspace to mix both identifiers.
Okay.
I think having both is leaving more opportunity for confusion and the new
mount id has a different name so I think start the move to using that now
and only allow the new one for lookups.
But I'd still leave the 2^32 offset for human confusion avoidance.
Yep, agreed.
Ian
