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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>,
	herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net,
	xemul@sw.ru, James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2006 11:14:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060409101436.GA20084@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m164ljjd70.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:44:19AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There are two ways to avoid the associated problems.
> - modify daemonize to always use the instance of that
>   namespace associated with init_task.
> - modify all interesting kernel threads to use the
>   kthread api instead of kernel_thread.  Using kthread
>   makes the kernel threads children of keventd and always
>   in the initial namespace instance.  As such we know
>   we aren't inside of any user space namespace instance.

I've added a deprecation entry for the kernel_thread export and plan
to convert all users to the kthread API.  Any help on that is of course
greatly appreciated.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-09 10:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20060407234815.849357768@sergelap>
     [not found] ` <20060408045206.EAA8E19B8FF@sergelap.hallyn.com>
2006-04-08  7:09   ` [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-08 20:27     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-09  9:44       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-09 10:14         ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-04-09 10:25           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-04-09 10:36             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10 20:39         ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-10 20:46           ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-04-08 23:44     ` Sam Vilain
2006-04-09  0:12       ` [Devel] " Kir Kolyshkin
2006-04-09  9:25         ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-04-10  1:15 ` [PATCH 0/7] uts namespaces: Introduction Sam Vilain
     [not found] ` <20060408045206.EFDD819B901@sergelap.hallyn.com>
2006-04-10 16:06   ` [Devel] [PATCH 4/7] uts namespaces: implement utsname namespaces Cedric Le Goater
2006-04-10 20:48     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2006-05-01 19:53 [PATCH 2/7] uts namespaces: switch to using uts namespaces Serge E. Hallyn
2006-05-01 19:53 ` [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate Serge E. Hallyn

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