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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>,
	chrisw@osdl.org, dwmw2@infradead.org, jamie@shareable.org,
	serue@us.ibm.com, linuxram@us.ibm.com, jmorris@namei.org,
	sds@tycho.nsa.gov, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 1/5] New system call, unshare
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2005 20:01:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051209190137.GA25656@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43999199.70608@us.ibm.com>


* JANAK DESAI <janak@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> To answer Ingo's question, we did look at other flags when I started.  
> However, I wanted to keep the system call simple enough, with atleast 
> namespace unsharing, so it would get accepted. In the original 
> discussion on fsdevel, unsharing of vm was mentioned as useful so I 
> added that in addition to namespace unsharing.

i think the only sane way to do this is to support unsharing for all 
flags. Internally (i.e. in the patch-queue) it can still be structured 
in a finegrained way, but in terms of exposing it to applications, it 
should be an all or nothing solution i think.

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-12-09 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-08 22:09 [PATCH -mm 1/5] New system call, unshare JANAK DESAI
2005-12-09 10:55 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-12-09 12:02   ` Al Viro
2005-12-09 14:15     ` JANAK DESAI
2005-12-09 14:34       ` Al Viro
2005-12-09 14:48         ` JANAK DESAI
2005-12-09 19:01       ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2005-12-09 19:57         ` JANAK DESAI

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