On 01/12/2018 07:40 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Fr, 12.01.18 07:20, Steve Dickson (SteveD@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > >> Instead of doing the blow by blow these threads >> always turn into I'm just going jump to the point. >> >> systemd wants to use uid 65534 and it can't because >> NFS is using it. So instead of changing systemd needs >> they want to change NFS potentially break all NFS >> environments. > > This is really not helpful. Grow up. sigh... > > User namespacing is a Linux kernel feature. It's most well known > consumers are probably Docker, and maybe flatpak/bubblewrap and LXC. Well know for how long? > > Neither Docker, nor flatpak/bubblewrap, nor LXC are systemd projects. > > It's not systemd that came up with reusing 65534 for user > namespacing. It's kernel people: > > $ cat /proc/sys/kernel/overflowuid > 65534 How was that number chosen and why can't be changed? > > You know, if you want my personal opinion: I don't... > >> Is or isn't this what we are talking about without >> all the bloviation to justify the change. > > It really is not. You *really* should read up on what the Linux kernel > has been doing with user namespaces and how it started using the 65534 > UID for that. > > That UID long ceased to be Steve Dickson's private property, and it's > not systemd who took it away from you. It's evil evil kernel > hackers. Please complain to them. more sigh... This attitude is so old and unnecessary... sigh again... steved. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
