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From: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at,
	devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	xemul@sw.ru, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:54:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44466B31.7040700@fr.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44465C47.9050706@sw.ru>

Hello !

Kirill Korotaev wrote:
> Serge,
> 
>> Please look closer at the patch.
>> I *am* doing nothing with sysctls.
>>
>> system_utsname no longer exists, and the way to get to that is by using
>> init_uts_ns.name.  That's all this does.
> Sorry for being not concrete enough.
> I mean switch () in the code. Until we decided how to virtualize
> sysctls/proc, I believe no dead code/hacks should be commited. IMHO.

How could we improve that hack ? Removing the modification of the static
table can easily be worked around but getting rid of the switch() statement
is more difficult. Any idea ?

> FYI, I strongly object against virtualizing sysctls this way as it is
> not flexible and is a real hack from my POV.

what is the issue with flexibility ?

thanks,

C.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-19 16:54 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 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 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 [this message]
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
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 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 5/5] uts namespaces: Enable UTS namespaces debugging Serge E. Hallyn
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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