mininet/mininet — pull request #246 by rlane (2013-11-19 01:06:39+00:00)
Title: mnexec: mount sysfs in each container

The sysfs filesystem is [tagged][1] with a set of namespaces when mounted, taken
from the mounting process. Among other things, this controls which network
devices will show up in /sys/class/net and /sys/class/net/bonding_masters.

Without this change, mininet will not mount sysfs in a node. Attempting to
configure a bond interface in a node will only affect the parent namespace.

This change mounts a new sysfs filesystem in each node. To prevent this mount
from affecting the parent namespace the mount namespace is also unshared.

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-tagging.txt