Re: [patch] kernel sysfs events layer

Tim Hockin
2004-09-15T21:49:28Z

On Wed, Sep 15, 2004 at 02:35:26PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Hm, this is an issue that I and the FreeBSD author of jail were talking
> about a week or so ago when I was describing why we did udev in
> userspace and the hotplug stuff. He pointed out the namespace issue as
> the biggest problem for FreeBSD to be able to do the same kind of thing
> that we are doing.
>
> But I agree, I don't think it's a big deal right now either.

The "big deal" is that namespaces are not *ever* considered when things
like this go on.

We keep adding things that don't think namepsaces are a big deal, and
we're painting ourselves into a corner where NONE of the advanced
functionality will work in the face of namespaces.