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From: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [patch 0/6] [Network namespace] introduction
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:45:40 +0200
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Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 11:21:43PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> 
>>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 ?
> 
> 
> You _still_ have a single namespace; look in /sys/class/net and you'll see.

Yes, that's right. The network devices namespaces are not yet 
implemented. There are potentially some conflicts with /proc and sysfs 
but we will address them in a future.

BTW, do you have some ideas on how handle these conflicts ?