From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Enrico Weigelt Subject: Re: [Devel] [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control. Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 14:28:00 +0200 Message-ID: <20100527122800.GC31480@nibiru.local> References: <1263568754.23480.142.camel@bigi> <1266875729.3673.12.camel@bigi> <1266931623.3973.643.camel@bigi> <1266934817.3973.654.camel@bigi> <1266966581.3973.675.camel@bigi> Reply-To: weigelt-EU+a56NjgY8@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org * Eric W. Biederman wrote: Hi, > The nsfd() system call returns a file descriptor that can > be used to talk about a specific namespace, and to keep > the specified namespace alive. Why not directly mapping it into the filesystem (eg. /proc) instead of yet another syscall ? cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------