| Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack [message #2766 is a reply to message #2765] |
Wed, 19 April 2006 20:24   |
serue
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Registered: February 2006
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Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> writes:
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> > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> >> Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> writes:
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> >> > Serge,
> >> >
> >> > can we do nothing with sysctls at this moment, instead of commiting hacks?
> >>
> >> Except that we modify a static table changing the uts behaviour in
> >> proc_doutsstring isn't all that bad.
> >>
> >> I'm just about to start on something more comprehensive, in
> >> the sysctl case.
> >
> > So assuming that I take out the switch(), leaving that for a better
> > solution by Eric (or Dave, or whoever),
> >
> > Is it time to ask for the utsname namespace patch to be tried out
> > in -mm?
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> Can we please suggest a syscall interface?
We can, but I was hoping that would be a separate patch, separate
discussion.
Are you asking for a new syscall, specifically to unshare utsname()? Or
for discussion over whether we want to do
one syscall per namespace
extend CLONE_NEWns flags
use unshare
use namespacefs
-serge
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