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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] net: Implement socketat.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:33:26 +0400
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On 09/23/2010 03:19 PM, jamal wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:56 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>> On 09/23/2010 12:51 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>> Add a system call for creating sockets in a specified network namespace.
>>
>> What for?
> 
> I can see many uses if my understanding is correct..
> ex, from mother namespace:
> fdx = open socket at namespace blah
> from mother namespace, read/write/poll fdx 
> (eg add route with netlink socket)

This particular usecase is unneeded once you have the "enter" ability.

> cheers,
> jamal
> 
>