From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Hockin Subject: Re: [PATCH] private mounts Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 09:37:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20050425163729.GA26142@hockin.org> References: <20050424201820.GA28428@infradead.org> <20050424205422.GK13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050424210616.GM13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050424211942.GN13052@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20050425094804.GA33040@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from hockin.org ([66.35.79.110]:43940 "EHLO www.hockin.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262660AbVDYQhh (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 12:37:37 -0400 To: Olivier Galibert , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050425094804.GA33040@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 11:48:04AM +0200, Olivier Galibert wrote: > Is there a possibility for a process to change its namespace to > another existing one? That would be needed to have a per-user > namespace you go to from rc files or pam. I haven't looked at this in about a year, but as of a year ago, no. Namespaces are/were second-class objects that exist only as referenced by tasks. I played with implementing a newns PAM module. It worked, but was full of holes. I started writing a paper on it, but never got around to finishing it, for various reasons. Tim