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From: Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@sw.ru, herbert@13thfloor.at,
	devel@openvz.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, xemul@sw.ru,
	haveblue@us.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, serue@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] namespaces: uts_ns: make information visible via /proc/PID/uts directory
Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 09:31:26 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44722DAE.3020205@vilain.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060522010414.6dfb4f71.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:

>Sam Vilain <sam@vilain.net> wrote:
>  
>
>>Export the UTS information to a per-process directory /proc/PID/uts,
>> that has individual nodes for hostname, ostype, etc - similar to
>> those in /proc/sys/kernel
>>    
>>
>umm, why?
>  
>

Er, for the same reason we have /proc/PID/mounts ?

>> This duplicates the approach used for /proc/PID/attr, which involves a
>> lot of duplication of similar functions.  Much room for maintenance
>> optimisation of both implementations remains.
>> fs/proc/base.c |  236 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>ouch.
>  
>

Also yow. Refer above gross understatement.

Sam.


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-22  5:24 [PATCH] namespaces: uts_ns: make information visible via /proc/PID/uts directory Sam Vilain
2006-05-22  8:04 ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-22 21:31   ` Sam Vilain [this message]
2006-05-22 11:45 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-22 23:07   ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-22 23:10     ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-22 23:49       ` Sam Vilain
2006-05-22 14:03 ` Herbert Poetzl
2006-05-22 16:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-05-22 23:18   ` Sam Vilain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-22  5:23 Sam Vilain

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