On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 12:17:24PM -0500, Matt Domsch wrote: > > uevents aren't namespaced. Presumably that means /dev can't be > polyinstantiated. Therefore, all devnodes in /dev/netdev/* will be > visible to all processes, where 'ifconfig' and friends would only show > device names in the processes namespace. This doesn't mean the app > can _do_ anything (it's the same as if it tried to act on a device > using an ifindex for a device not in its namespace), but yes, the fact > that such a device exists will be exposed. That's the problem that the sysfs namespace patches were trying to address. Now I'm not saying it is a valid thing to try to work with this kind of crazy, I was just wondering how it would work out. Looks like it doesn't :) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
