From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751038AbWDSS3Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751043AbWDSS3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:15 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:44426 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750947AbWDSS3P (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:29:15 -0400 To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Kirill Korotaev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net, xemul@sw.ru, James Morris Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack References: <20060407095132.455784000@sergelap> <20060407183600.E40C119B902@sergelap.hallyn.com> <4446547B.4080206@sw.ru> <20060419175123.GD1238@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:27:01 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060419175123.GD1238@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:51:23 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com): >> Kirill Korotaev 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? Can we please suggest a syscall interface? Eric