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Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:51:23 -0500
From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack
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Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com):
> Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru> writes:
> 
> > 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?

thanks,
-serge