From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:23:15 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] __emul_prefix() problem Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:51:11PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote: > I'm not sure there is a clean fix to this, but one proposal is > attached below: it causes __emul_lookup_dentry() to ignore the > alternate root for paths that resolve to a directory. This obviously > could create other problems, but I suspect there is no solution that > works 100% in all cases (the fundamental being that we now have two > different root nodes...). Looks sant to me and doesn't break Linux-ABI. For 2.5 I'd prefer to somehow build a per-personality namespace. Al, do you have an idea how to keep a secondary namespace alive over the whole uptime so non-Linu binaries can switch to it all the time (implicitly)? Christoph