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mount.2: Rework the text on mount namespaces a little 

Eliminate the term "Per-process namespaces" and add a reference
to mount_namespaces(7).

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2019-10-08 16:42:18 +02:00
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@ -849,12 +849,11 @@ Since Linux 2.4 the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits are
just silently ignored in this case.
.\" The change is in patch-2.4.0-prerelease.
.\"
.SS Per-process namespaces
Starting with kernel 2.4.19, Linux provides
per-process mount namespaces.
.SS Mount namespaces
Starting with kernel 2.4.19, Linux provides mount namespaces.
A mount namespace is the set of filesystem mounts that
are visible to a process.
Mount-point namespaces can be (and usually are)
Mount namespaces can be (and usually are)
shared between multiple processes,
and changes to the namespace (i.e., mounts and unmounts) by one process
are visible to all other processes sharing the same namespace.
@ -886,6 +885,9 @@ of the namespace that it was previously sharing with other processes,
so that future mounts and unmounts by the caller are invisible
to other processes (except child processes that the caller
subsequently creates) and vice versa.
.PP
For further details on mount namespaces, see
.BR mount_namespaces (7).
.\"
.SS /proc/[pid]/mounts and /proc/[pid]/mountinfo
The Linux-specific