Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] man/man2/statmount.2: Document New Features

Alejandro Colomar <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:52:26 +0100

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Hi Bhavik,

On 2026-02-22T20:15:50+0530, Bhavik Sachdev wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
> 
> This patchset documents all the new features added to statmount() since
> the syscall was first introduced.
> 
> I did work on the STATMOUNT_BY_FD changes and I have tried my best to
> understand rest of the features and document them.
> 
> I have cc'ed the authors of all these new features, please let me know
> your thoughts.
> 
> This patchset is also available on github [1].
> 
> Changes from v1 to v2:
> 
> - Appended Linux versions to document in which version new fields were
>   introduced.
> - Fixed formatting issues and wording problems pointed out by Alex
>   during review.
> - Reworded STATMOUNT_{UIDMAP,GIDMAP} to better explain the feature.
> 
> Changes from RFC to v1:
> 
> - Document req.mnt_ns_fd as well.
> - Fix all lint errors generated by running
> `make -R lint-man man/man2/statmount.2`.
> 
> [1]: https://github.com/bsach64/man-pages/tree/man.2.statmount.v2
> 
> Bhavik Sachdev (10):
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document req.mnt_ns_id and STATMOUNT_MNT_NS_ID
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_MNT_OPTS
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_FS_SUBTYPE
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_SB_SOURCE
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_OPT_ARRAY
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_OPT_SEC_ARRAY

I've applied patches 1..6.  They're in a branch:
<https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=statmount>

I've done some amendments to patches 5 and 6, and the following ones
don't apply anymore.  Would you mind rebasing and sending the rest?


Have a lovely night!
Alex

>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_{UIDMAP,GIDMAP}
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_SUPPORTED_MASK
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document req.mnt_ns_fd
>   man/man2/statmount.2: Document STATMOUNT_BY_FD
> 
>  man/man2/statmount.2 | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 172 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> -- 
> 2.53.0
> 
> 

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