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From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Cc: vadim4j@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] ip: Simplify executing ip cmd within namespace
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 19:08:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141211190846.1e25e7fa@griffin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5489D56E.4010505@gmail.com>

On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:33:34 -0200, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner wrote:
> In that case, it would be interesting to also accelerate the original use 
> case, no? So all usages we currently have will benefit from this speed up 
> without a change.
> 
> if (command to be executed == myself)
>    switch namespace, continue without fork/exec..

It's never good idea to do such tricks behind the user's back. This
particular case could easily break for users wanting to execute a
different ip binary (for whatever reason).

All programs should do what they are told to do, not try to outsmart
the user.

 Jiri

-- 
Jiri Benc

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-11 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-10 22:56 [PATCH iproute2] ip: Simplify executing ip cmd within namespace Vadim Kochan
2014-12-11 10:58 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2014-12-11 10:57   ` vadim4j
2014-12-11 12:50     ` Nicolas Dichtel
2014-12-11 13:02       ` vadim4j
2014-12-11 16:09 ` Jiri Benc
2014-12-11 16:33   ` vadim4j
2014-12-11 17:33     ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
2014-12-11 18:08       ` Jiri Benc [this message]
2014-12-11 18:36         ` Marcelo Ricardo Leitner

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