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2.13 /proc/<pid>/oom_score - Display current oom-killer score
2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields
2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings
+ 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
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Preface
@@ -2348,4 +2349,35 @@ For example:
$ echo 0x7 > /proc/self/coredump_filter
$ ./some_program
+2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts
+--------------------------------------------------------
+
+This file contains lines of the form:
+
+36 35 98:0 /mnt1 /mnt2 rw,noatime master:1 - ext3 /dev/root rw,errors=continue
+(1)(2)(3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11)
+
+(1) mount ID: unique identifier of the mount (may be reused after umount)
+(2) parent ID: ID of parent (or of self for the top of the mount tree)
+(3) major:minor: value of st_dev for files on filesystem
+(4) root: root of the mount within the filesystem
+(5) mount point: mount point relative to the process's root
+(6) mount options: per mount options
+(7) optional fields: zero or more fields of the form "tag[:value]"
+(8) separator: marks the end of the optional fields
+(9) filesystem type: name of filesystem of the form "type[.subtype]"
+(10) mount source: filesystem specific information or "none"
+(11) super options: per super block options
+
+Parsers should ignore all unrecognised optional fields. Currently the
+possible optional fields are:
+
+shared:X mount is shared in peer group X
+master:X mount is slave to peer group X
+unbindable mount is unbindable
+
+For more information on mount propagation see:
+
+ Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt
+
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