[CRIU] [RFC][PATCH 0/3] Proposal for native (w/o plugins) support for external bind mounts v2

[Filipe Brandenburger]

On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul at parallels.com> wrote:
>> The --ext-mount parameter could also take the name of a file with a
>> set of directory mappings, which might be easier to maintain than two
>> tokens with a magic separator between them...
>
> Not sure I understand this, can you elaborate?

Something like --ext-mount /path/to/mappingfile and then have
mappingfile use a format that makes it possible to list a number of
mappings (no need for repeated options) and with no restrictions on
the characters found in the path names (i.e. can handle paths with "="
or ":" in them.)