From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Clone PTS namespace Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:38:08 -0700 Message-ID: <47FD4550.1010700@zytor.com> References: <20080408215333.GA8799@us.ibm.com> <47FC138B.4070408@zytor.com> <20080409162353.GA14044@us.ibm.com> <47FD046C.6070804@zytor.com> <20080409191634.GA25220@vino.hallyn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20080409191634.GA25220@vino.hallyn.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: serge@hallyn.com Cc: sukadev@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Containers , Pavel Emelyanov , serue@us.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org serge@hallyn.com wrote: >> I'm just worried about the accumulation of what feels like ad hoc >> namespaces, causing a very large combination matrix, a lot of which don't >> make sense. > > Hmm, if we were to just call this CLONE_NEWDEV, would that (a) make > sense and (b) suitably address your (certainly valid) concern? > > Basically for now CLONE_NEWDEV wouldn't yet be fully implemented, only > unsharing unix98 ptys... That would make sense to me. Also see Eric's note about uevent, however; and there are probably other issues like it. -hpa