From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750855AbWDJBQW (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:16:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750857AbWDJBQW (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:16:22 -0400 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:55699 "EHLO watts.utsl.gen.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750851AbWDJBQV (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:16:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4439B1CA.2080806@vilain.net> Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:15:54 +1200 From: Sam Vilain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Korotaev , herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , xemul@sw.ru, James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] uts namespaces: Introduction References: <20060407234815.849357768@sergelap> In-Reply-To: <20060407234815.849357768@sergelap> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Serge, I have just imported your series into the GIT repository where I have been collating the various recent related submissions at: git://vserver.utsl.gen.nz/vserver A summary of the submissions imported to date are at: http://www.utsl.gen.nz/gitweb/?p=vserver;a=heads I will endeavour to continue to collect and catalogue all vserver related submissions I receive, see on LKML, or get pull requests for, as a part of my efforts to merge this functionality. Sam. Serge E. Hallyn wrote: >Introduce utsname namespaces. Instead of a single system_utsname >containing hostname domainname etc, a process can request it's >copy of the uts info to be cloned. The data will be copied from >it's original, but any further changes will not be seen by processes >which are not it's children, and vice versa. > >This is useful, for instance, for vserver/openvz, which can now clone >a new uts namespace for each new virtual server. > >Aside from the debugging patch which comes last, this patchset does >not actually implement a way for processes to unshare the uts namespace. >The proper unsharing semantics are to be worked out later. > >Changes since last submission: > Restructured patchset so it compiles after each patch > Removed EXPORT_SYMBOL for unshare_uts_ns and free_uts_ns. > The former is now in the debugging pach and the latter gone > entirely, as unsharing is likely not something to be done > from modules! > >-serge > > > >