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From: Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: new link failing on duplicate names in different namespaces
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:40:33 +0100
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Le 26/02/2015 14:55, Eric W. Biederman a =C3=A9crit :
[snip]
>
> We can not give the guarantee that a new network device will only liv=
e
> in and have a unique name in a single network namespace until we get
> rid of dev_change_net_namespace in the code.
In fact in case of IFLA_LINK_NETNSID, with Cong's patch, we will first =
check
that the name is unique in link_net and after dev_change_net_namespace(=
) will
check that the name is also unique in the final net, else the command w=
ill fail
(and the device is not created).