[RFC] proposed libc interface and man page for listmount

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 at 19:26, Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 05:27:58PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > Attaching the proposed man page for listing mounts (based on the new
> > listmount() syscall).
> >
> > The raw interface is:
> >
> >        syscall(__NR_listmount, const struct mnt_id_req __user *, req,
> >                   u64 __user *, buf, size_t, bufsize, unsigned int, flags);
> >
> > The proposed libc API is.
> >
> >        struct listmount *listmount_start(uint64_t mnt_id, unsigned int flags);
> >        uint64_t listmount_next(struct listmount *lm);
> >        void listmount_end(struct listmount *lm);
>
> What about:
>
>     getmountlist()
>     nextmountlist()
>     freemountlist()
>
> For me, _start and _end() sounds strange. For example, We already use
> get+free for getaddrinfo().

Fine by me.  Just wanted to get the general scheme out for comment.

Thanks,
Miklos