From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756442AbYDIWjh (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:39:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752980AbYDIWj3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:39:29 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42665 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753155AbYDIWj2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2008 18:39:28 -0400 Message-ID: <47FD4550.1010700@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 15:38:08 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080226) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: serge@hallyn.com CC: sukadev@us.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Containers , Pavel Emelyanov , serue@us.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Clone PTS namespace References: <20080408215333.GA8799@us.ibm.com> <47FC138B.4070408@zytor.com> <20080409162353.GA14044@us.ibm.com> <47FD046C.6070804@zytor.com> <20080409191634.GA25220@vino.hallyn.com> In-Reply-To: <20080409191634.GA25220@vino.hallyn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org serge@hallyn.com wrote: >> I'm just worried about the accumulation of what feels like ad hoc >> namespaces, causing a very large combination matrix, a lot of which don't >> make sense. > > Hmm, if we were to just call this CLONE_NEWDEV, would that (a) make > sense and (b) suitably address your (certainly valid) concern? > > Basically for now CLONE_NEWDEV wouldn't yet be fully implemented, only > unsharing unix98 ptys... That would make sense to me. Also see Eric's note about uevent, however; and there are probably other issues like it. -hpa