From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from out02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.232]:47392 "EHLO out02.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751041Ab2ACDqz convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:46:55 -0500 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Stanislav Kinsbursky Cc: "Trond.Myklebust\@netapp.com" , "linux-nfs\@vger.kernel.org" , Pavel Emelianov , "neilb\@suse.de" , "netdev\@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" , James Bottomley , "bfields\@fieldses.org" , "davem\@davemloft.net" , "devel\@openvz.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] SYSCTL: export root and set handling routines References: <20111214103602.3991.20990.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <20111214104449.3991.61989.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <4EEEFC54.10700@parallels.com> <4EEF2C9A.8000403@parallels.com> <4EEF7364.8000407@parallels.com> Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:49:00 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4EEF7364.8000407@parallels.com> (Stanislav Kinsbursky's message of "Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:24:52 +0400") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Stanislav Kinsbursky writes: > 19.12.2011 20:37, Eric W. Biederman пишет: >> Stanislav Kinsbursky writes: >> >> Doing that independently of the rest of the sysctls is pretty horrible >> and confusing to users. What I am planning might suit your needs and >> if not we need to talk some more about how to get the vfs to do >> something reasonable. >> > > Ok, Eric. Would be glad to discuss your sysctls plans. > But actually you already know my needs: I would like to make sysctls work in the > way like sysfs does: i.e. content of files depends on mount maker - > not viewer. What drives the desire to have sysctls depend on the mount maker? Especially what drives that desire not to have it have a /proc//sys directory that reflects the sysctls for a given process. Eric