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fd-util: Use /proc/pid/fd instead of /proc/self/fd
Currently, we mount via file descriptors using /proc/self/fd. This works, but it means that in /proc/mounts and various other files, the source of the mount will be listed as /proc/self/fd/xxx. For other software that parses these files, /proc/self/fd/xxx doesn't mean anything, or worse, it means the completely wrong thing, as it will refer to one of their own file descriptors instead. Let's improve the situation by using /proc/pid/fd instead. This allows processes parsing /proc/mounts to do the right thing more often than not. One scenario where even this doesn't work if when containers are involved, as with the pid namespace unshared, even /proc/pid/fd will mean the wrong thing, but it's no worse than /proc/self/fd which will always means the wrong thing. This also doesn't work if we mount via file descriptor and then exit, as the pid will be gone, but it does work as long as the process that did the mount is alive, which makes it useful for systemd-dissect --with for example if the program we run in the image wants to parse /proc/mounts. (cherry picked from commit 4419735)
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