Re: [RFC][2.6 patch] Allow creation of new namespaces during mount system call

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:23:10PM -0700, Bryan Henderson wrote:
> >That assumes that everyone has the same stuff in the same places.  I.e.
> >that there is a universal tree with different subset hidden from 
> different
> >processes.  But that is obviously a wrong approach - e.g. it loses 
> ability
> >to bind different stuff on the same place in different namespaces.
> 
> Aren't you trying to boil another egg in my pot?  In Linux today, everyone 
> (every process on the same Linux system, that is) has the same stuff in 
> the same place.

No.  I'm running various different namespace here, as part of a command to
setup chroots sanely.

> Not sure which reality you're talking about.  I don't think a directory 
> has a real absolute pathname, because I think the person who mounts the 
> filesystem that contains it chooses part of its absolute pathname for the 
> lifetime of the mount.  But as between multiple processes on the same 
> system at the same time, yeah, the directory has one name.

No.