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SubjectRe: rootfs exposure in /proc/mounts
> > > On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 16:09, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > clone(..., CLONE_NEWNS, ...)
> >
> > After that subsequent namespace operations will only affect your process
> > and it's child processes.
>
> Cool.
>
> Question: if those processes mount something and then exit, does that
> something get unmounted automatically or is this a mount point leak?

Both namespaces and vfsmounts are refcounted and garbage-collected
if their useage counts hits zero, so there will be no leak.
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