unshare -m does not work as expected

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:50:01PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> I am trying this simple sequence:
> 
> unshare -m /bin/bash
> mount /dev/sd3 /mnt/sda3
> 
> then from a different terminal I run:
> mount | grep sda2
> 
> And I see this mount (which was not mounted before running this mount command)
> cat /proc/self/mountinfo | grep share (on the second terminal, and
> also on  the first) does not find anything.
> So we don't have here a shared mount.
> 
> Now, I would expect not to see sda3 mounted on the second terminal.
> I created a child with a different namespace in the first terminal.
> 
> Why do I see it ?

Perhaps because /etc/mtab is a regular file that is shared by both of
your namespaces?

You could replace /etc/mtab with a symlink to /proc/mounts, IIRC, but
there are some subtle caveats in some situations.  I don't remember the
details, unfortunately.  Google might help, perhaps.

Marius Gedminas
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