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Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] net: Implement socketat.
From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
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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)

cheers,
jamal