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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:25:11 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, serue@us.ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 0/6] [Network namespace] introduction
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On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:21:43PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> Al Viro wrote:
> >On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:02:02PM +0200, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote:
> >- renaming an interface in one "namespace" affects everyone.
> 
> Exact. If we ensure the interface can't be renamed if used in different 
> namespace, is it really a problem ?

You _still_ have a single namespace; look in /sys/class/net and you'll see.