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| author | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-03-24 14:06:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net> | 2021-03-26 11:39:37 +0100 |
| commit | 4b6ef52756ce1be1bd365c2bb63ad4f0c895c1a5 (patch) | |
| tree | 705495287b07060c9cdefa84af11a7f767ff5416 /src/shared/mount-util.c | |
| parent | 5c5753b9ea5cc012586ae90d357d460dec4301a4 (diff) | |
| download | systemd-4b6ef52756ce1be1bd365c2bb63ad4f0c895c1a5.tar.gz | |
mount-util: extend comment a bit, mention that we aren't atomic in behaviour
Diffstat (limited to 'src/shared/mount-util.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shared/mount-util.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/shared/mount-util.c b/src/shared/mount-util.c index fb7e513acc..778cfba1ea 100644 --- a/src/shared/mount-util.c +++ b/src/shared/mount-util.c @@ -216,7 +216,9 @@ int bind_remount_recursive_with_mountinfo( * access, too. When mounts are stacked on the same mount point we only care for each individual * "top-level" mount on each point, as we cannot influence/access the underlying mounts anyway. We do * not have any effect on future submounts that might get propagated, they might be writable - * etc. This includes future submounts that have been triggered via autofs. + * etc. This includes future submounts that have been triggered via autofs. Also note that we can't + * operate atomically here. Mounts established while we process the tree might or might not get + * noticed and thus might or might not be covered. * * If the "deny_list" parameter is specified it may contain a list of subtrees to exclude from the * remount operation. Note that we'll ignore the deny list for the top-level path. */ |