Data processing: database and file management or data structures – Database design – Data structure types
Reexamination Certificate
2004-01-28
2009-02-10
To, Baoquoc N (Department: 2162)
Data processing: database and file management or data structures
Database design
Data structure types
C707S793000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07490074
ABSTRACT:
A mechanism is disclosed for selectively providing mount information to processes running within operating system partitions. In one implementation, a non-global operating system partition is created within a global operating system environment. A file system is maintained for this non-global partition. This file system comprises zero or more mounts, and may be part of a larger, overall file system. When a process running within the non-global partition requests information pertaining to mounts, a determination is made as to which partition the process is running in. Because the process is running within the non-global partition, only selected information is provided to the process. More specifically, only information pertaining to the mounts that are within the file system maintained for the non-global partition is provided to the process. By doing so, the process is limited to viewing only those mounts that are part of the non-global partition's file system.
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