From: Dax Kelson <dax@gurulabs.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: thockin@Sun.COM, Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>,
autofs mailing list <autofs@linux.kernel.org>,
Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: name spaces good (was: [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs)
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2004 15:28:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1073428129.2454.35.camel@mentor.gurulabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FFB316A.6000004@zytor.com>
On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:06, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> First of all, I'll be blunt: namespaces currently provide zero benefit
> in Linux, and virtually noone uses them.
I strongly disagree.
I find them very useful, and there are lots of problems that are not
cleanly solved any other way. In particular they are very useful in
security hardening, compartmentalization scenarios.
The abysmal state of Linux autofs is something that needs fixing
yesterday.
Dax Kelson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-06 22:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 79+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-06 19:55 [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 19:55 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:01 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 21:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 21:44 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:44 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 21:50 ` [autofs] " Tim Hockin
2004-01-06 21:50 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-06 22:06 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:17 ` [autofs] " Tim Hockin
[not found] ` <20040106221502.GA7398@hockin.org>
2004-01-06 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 16:19 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 16:19 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 17:55 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 21:13 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-06 22:28 ` Dax Kelson [this message]
2004-01-06 22:48 ` name spaces good H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-06 22:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-07 21:14 ` [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Jim Carter
2004-01-07 21:14 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-07 22:55 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-07 22:55 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 12:00 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-08 12:00 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 15:39 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 18:20 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 18:20 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 20:06 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:06 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-10 5:43 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-12 13:07 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-12 16:01 ` raven
2004-01-12 16:26 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-12 22:50 ` Tim Hockin
2004-01-12 23:28 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 1:30 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-13 1:30 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-12 16:28 ` [autofs] " raven
2004-01-12 16:58 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 1:54 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-13 1:54 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-13 19:01 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 19:01 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-14 15:58 ` [autofs] " raven
2004-01-14 19:32 ` running out of mount points Greg Bradner
2004-01-19 15:48 ` Greg Bradner
2004-01-19 17:11 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-19 19:07 ` Greg Bradner
2004-01-20 19:15 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-13 18:46 ` [autofs] [RFC] Towards a Modern Autofs Mike Waychison
2004-01-13 18:46 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:51 ` [autofs] " Jim Carter
2004-01-09 20:51 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-10 5:56 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-08 17:34 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 19:41 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 23:42 ` Michael Clark
2004-01-09 20:28 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:28 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:54 ` [autofs] " H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 20:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-09 21:43 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 21:43 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 18:32 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-09 18:32 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-09 20:52 ` [autofs] " Mike Waychison
2004-01-09 20:52 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-10 6:05 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2004-01-08 12:29 ` Olivier Galibert
2004-01-08 13:20 ` Robin Rosenberg
2004-01-08 16:23 ` Mike Waychison
2004-01-08 12:35 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 13:08 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 18:20 ` Jim Carter
2004-01-08 21:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-01-08 0:48 ` Ian Kent
2004-01-08 0:48 ` Ian Kent
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