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Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] user namespace [try #2] [message #16577 is a reply to message #16576] Thu, 31 August 2006 03:55 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg@fr.ibm.com):
> Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Here's a second version. It's very close from the first one and takes into
> > account some discussions we had with kirill on the topic during OLS. 2
> > patches follow, the first introduces the user namespace core and the last
> > enables to use it with unshare.
> > 
> > Changes [try #2]
> > 
> > 	- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()
> > 	- added a root_user per user namespace
> > 
> > execns() syscall is back in the attic for the moment. I'm still maintaining
> > it and we'll see if it's of any use when we address the user space API of
> > the full conainer. soon, I hope !
> > 
> > This user namespace patchset does not try to address all the issues that
> > were raised by the previous thread on the topic, like user mapping per
> > namespace, per mount, etc. It tries to solve some simple issues with the
> > current implementation of containers in mind. It should be especially
> > useful the existing solutions and lay ground basic objects.
> > 
> > thanks for your comments,
> 
> I didn't get much comments on that one. is everybody happy with it ? can we
> merge ask andrew to merge in -mm ?
> 
> thanks,

Ideally we could collect Acked-by: or Signed-off-by: from Eric, Kir or
Kirill, and Herbert or Sam, to show we are all in agreement.

Or a NACK  :)

-serge
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