From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: sukadev@us.ibm.com
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
serue@us.ibm.com, matthltc@us.ibm.com,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
hpa@zytor.com, Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>,
Containers <containers@lists.osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Helper patches for PTY namespaces
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 19:35:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080412183514.GO9785@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080412172933.GA19295@us.ibm.com>
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:29:33AM -0700, sukadev@us.ibm.com wrote:
>
> Some simple helper patches to enable implementation of multiple PTY
> (or device) namespaces.
>
> [PATCH 1/4]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new
> [PATCH 2/4]: Factor out PTY index allocation
> [PATCH 3/4]: Move devpts globals into init_pts_ns
> [PATCH 3/4]: Enable multiple mounts of /dev/pts
>
> This patchset is based on earlier versions developed by Serge Hallyn
> and Matt Helsley.
*boggle*
Care to explain how that "namespace" is different from devpts instance?
IOW, why the devil do you guys ignore Occam's Razor?
Frankly, this nonsense has gone far enough; I can buy the need to compensate
for shitty APIs (sockets, non-fs-based-IPC, etc.), but devpts *is* *a*
*fucking* *filesystem*. Already. And as such it's already present in
normal, real, we-really-shouldn't-have-any-other-if-not-for-ancient-stupidity
namespace.
Why not simply allow independent instances of devpts and be done with that?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-12 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-12 17:29 [PATCH 0/4] Helper patches for PTY namespaces sukadev
2008-04-12 17:32 ` [PATCH 1/4]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new sukadev
2008-04-12 17:32 ` [PATCH 2/4]: Factor out PTY index allocation sukadev
2008-04-12 17:33 ` [PATCH 3/4]: Move devpts globals into init_pts_ns sukadev
2008-04-12 17:34 ` [PATCH 4/4]: Enable multiple mounts of /dev/pts sukadev
2008-04-12 18:09 ` [PATCH 0/4] Helper patches for PTY namespaces H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-12 18:35 ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-04-12 18:54 ` Multiple instances of devpts H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-12 19:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-12 19:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-12 19:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-04-12 19:06 ` [PATCH 0/4] Helper patches for PTY namespaces Eric W. Biederman
2008-04-13 0:59 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2008-08-01 18:12 ` Per-instance devpts H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-01 19:23 ` Dave Hansen
2008-08-01 19:35 ` Al Viro
2008-08-01 19:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
[not found] ` <f73f7ab80808020004j15b0d0e5x5fa911242641b34d@mail.gmail.com>
2008-08-02 7:06 ` Kyle Moffett
2008-08-02 15:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-02 8:54 ` Bastian Blank
2008-08-03 5:08 ` sukadev
2008-08-03 11:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-08-03 12:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-03 17:46 ` sukadev
2008-08-03 17:54 ` Alan Cox
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