From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [RCF] [PATCH] unprivileged mount/umount Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 22:11:34 +0100 Message-ID: <20050511211134.GB5093@mail.shareable.org> References: <406SQ-5P9-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <40rNB-6p8-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <40t37-7ol-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <42VeB-8hG-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <42WNo-1eJ-17@gated-at.bofh.it> <20050511170700.GC2141@mail.shareable.org> <20050511190545.GB14646@serge.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Miklos Szeredi , 7eggert@gmx.de, ericvh@gmail.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, smfrench@austin.rr.com, hch@infradead.org Return-path: Received: from mail.shareable.org ([81.29.64.88]:47824 "EHLO mail.shareable.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262055AbVEKVMV (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 17:12:21 -0400 To: serue@us.ibm.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050511190545.GB14646@serge.austin.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org serue@us.ibm.com wrote: > Right, sys_unshare(), as per Janak's patch. Does it lack anything which > you would need? For creating new namespaces to be held by a daemon for handing out to user processes on demand, it's no more convenient than clone(). Neither of them provide a facility to create multiple namespaces as first-class objects, without switching to them. -- Jamie