mountinfo: add support for listmount(2) / statmount(2)

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, linux
Domain
operating-systems

Research direction

Start with the mountinfo implementation and review the Linux 6.8 listmount(2) and statmount(2) syscall documentation, including the linked man-pages patch set. Determine the existing entry points and tests before deciding how support should replace or complement /proc/mountinfo parsing. Done means the package supports these syscalls where available and behavior is verified on Linux 6.8 or newer.

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Description

These new syscalls are available since Linux 6.8, and AFACS make it possible to avoid parsing /proc/mountinfo, which would be a great improvement.

The documentation for these are still being worked on (the last iteration of patch set to man-pages is here).

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Merged PRs (30d)
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