make more resilient

diff --git a/newns b/newns
index 76c7adf53c6aa4b623572eeb3cb07227f7cfbecb..d4ee334ac784232c291548307c65f25166ad4c76 100755 (executable)
--- a/newns
+++ b/newns
@@ -190,8 +190,11 @@ 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