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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>
To: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>, Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at,
	devel@openvz.org, xemul@sw.ru, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:05:59 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420170559.GA25899@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4446AF56.9060706@vilain.net>

Quoting Sam Vilain (sam@vilain.net):
> Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> >>Is it time to ask for the utsname namespace patch to be tried out
> >>in -mm?
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Can we please suggest a syscall interface?
> >  
> >
> 
> What was wrong with the method of the one I posted / extracted from the
> Linux-VServer project? I mean, apart from the baggage which I intend to
> remove for the next posting.
> 
> The concept was - have a single syscall with versioned subcommands. We
> can throw all of the namespace syscalls in there.
> 
> Sam.

Well IIUC on the whole having one syscall multiplexing onto various
commands is frowned upon.  But please resubmit when you're ready, and
we'll see what ppl think of it.

Can you have a version on top of my utsname patches, hooking into the
utsname unsharing fn?

thanks,
-serge

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-20 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-07 18:36 [RFC][PATCH 0/5] uts namespaces: Introduction Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 18:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 5/5] uts namespaces: Enable UTS namespaces debugging Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 18:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 2/5] uts namespaces: Switch to using uts namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 19:17   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-07 19:25     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-11 12:26   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-11 21:04     ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-12  5:01       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-12  6:00         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 15:00           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 18:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 3/5] uts namespaces: Use init uts_namespace when appropriate Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 18:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-19 15:17   ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-19 15:21     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-19 15:50       ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-19 16:54         ` Cedric Le Goater
2006-04-19 17:10           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 17:10         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-19 15:52       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 16:23         ` Dave Hansen
2006-04-19 16:52           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 17:19             ` Dave Hansen
2006-04-19 17:37               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 17:48               ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 15:29     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 17:51       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-19 18:27         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-19 20:24           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-19 21:44           ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-20 17:05             ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2006-04-25 22:00             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-26  4:09               ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-26 10:28                 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-27 12:32                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 18:36 ` [RFC][PATCH 1/5] uts namespaces: Implement utsname namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 19:13   ` Sam Ravnborg
2006-04-07 19:20     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 19:39     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 20:47   ` James Morris
2006-04-07 22:13     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-08 13:44   ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-08 13:45   ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-08 20:28     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-09  6:00       ` Andi Kleen
2006-04-09 19:08         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 19:06 ` [RFC][PATCH 0/5] uts namespaces: Introduction Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-07 19:28   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-07 19:39     ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-11 12:32 ` Kirill Korotaev
2006-04-11 14:01   ` Serge E. Hallyn

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