X-Git-Url: https://iankelling.org/git/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=newns;h=713c29de8cd7945314d7f9e009a6cbe364e6b0e2;hb=8d1e271a9757b6c405860effff82e9e28bd89827;hp=a2233fb700b077a6933381f812ed9b5ce89919c7;hpb=fedb02a73e1171c91cca9bc91bc357b1db8477ec;p=newns diff --git a/newns b/newns index a2233fb..713c29d 100755 --- a/newns +++ b/newns @@ -38,21 +38,22 @@ fi usage() { cat </dev/null; then existing=true @@ -187,13 +192,26 @@ start() { mkdir -p /root/mount_namespaces if ! mountpoint /root/mount_namespaces >/dev/null; then mount --bind /root/mount_namespaces /root/mount_namespaces - mount --make-private /root/mount_namespaces fi + # note: This is outside the mount condition because I've mysteriously + # had this become shared instead of private, perhaps it + # got remounted somehow and lost the setting. + mount --make-private /root/mount_namespaces if [[ ! -e /root/mount_namespaces/$nn ]]; then touch /root/mount_namespaces/$nn fi if ! mountpoint /root/mount_namespaces/$nn >/dev/null; then - unshare --mount=/root/mount_namespaces/$nn + # documentation on propagation is a bit weird because it + # confusingly talks about binds, namespaces, and mirrors (which + # seems to be just another name for bind), shared subtrees + # (which seems to a term for binds and namespaces), and does not + # properly specify whether the documentation applies to binds, + # namespaces, or both. Notably, propagation for binds is marked + # on the original mount point, and propagation for a mount + # namespace is marked on mounts within the namespace. Here, we + # specify that we want mount changes propagated to us, but not + # back. + unshare --propagation slave --mount=/root/mount_namespaces/$nn fi #### end mount namespace setup ####