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Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:21:43 +0200
From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
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To: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 0/6] [Network namespace] introduction
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Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:02:02PM +0200, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote:
> - renaming an interface in one "namespace" affects everyone.

Exact. If we ensure the interface can't be renamed if used in different 
namespace, is it really a problem ?