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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: RFC: netfilter: nf_conntrack: add support for "conntrack zones"
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:09:41 -0500
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On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 12:00 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> That point of the mount to hold a persistent reference to the
> namespace without using a process.
> 
> The point of the of the to be written set_ns call is to change
> the default network namespace of the process such that all future
> open/bind/socket calls happen in the referenced network namespace.

Ok, i like it ;-> Patches RSN? Let me if you want someone to test..

> The are a few stray places like sysfs where it is the mount point
> not current->nsproxy->net_ns that will determine what we see.

Is sysfs considered "usable enough" for namespaces?

> Attributes of the specific namespace?

Well, example what is being un/shared etc. 

cheers,
jamal