From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: Detecting if you are running in a container Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:04:55 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20111011013201.GA7948@thunk.org> <20111011020530.GG16723@count0.beaverton.ibm.com> <20111011032523.GB7948@thunk.org> <203BBB0D-293D-4BFB-A57B-41C56F58F9B3@mit.edu> <20111012175702.GA23231@fieldses.org> <20111012190452.GA23845@fieldses.org> <20111014155406.GC13119@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20111014155406.GC13119@thunk.org> (Ted Ts'o's message of "Fri, 14 Oct 2011 11:54:06 -0400") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Ted Ts'o Cc: Kyle Moffett , "J. Bruce Fields" , Matt Helsley , Lennart Poettering , Kay Sievers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harald@redhat.com, david@fubar.dk, greg@kroah.com, Linux Containers , Linux Containers , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Daniel Lezcano , Paul Menage List-Id: containers.vger.kernel.org Ted Ts'o writes: >> I am of course making it sound a million times easier than it's >> actually likely to be, but I do think it's possible without too many >> odd corner cases. > > It's not the corner cases, it's all of the different name spaces that > different system administrators and their sites are going to want to > use, and how to support them all.... > > And of course, once we start naming uid name spaces, eventually > someone will want to virtualize containers, and then we will have > namespaces for namespaces. (It's turtles all the way down! :-) I have found and merged a solution that allows us to name namespaces without needing a namespaces for namespaces. Eric