Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH] VFS: create /proc/<pid>/mountinfo | | From | Miklos Szeredi <> | | Date | Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:23:00 +0100 | |
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > - for mount ID's use IDA (from the IDR library) instead of a 32bit
> > counter, which could overflow
>
> IDAs tend to get reused quickly, which can cause race conditions. Any
> reason not to just use a 64-bit counter?
They tend to become hard to parse/compare for humans after a while.
And all this is basically only for humans, so race conditions don't
really matter. Also a changed mount with a reused ID is easily
identified by comparing the other fields.
Miklos
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