> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 08:05:30PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote: > >>BTW... >> >> >>>--- 2.6.18-rc4-mm3.orig/include/linux/sched.h >>>+++ 2.6.18-rc4-mm3/include/linux/sched.h >>>@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ >>> #define CLONE_STOPPED 0x02000000 /* Start in stopped state */ >>> #define CLONE_NEWUTS 0x04000000 /* New utsname group? */ >>> #define CLONE_NEWIPC 0x08000000 /* New ipcs */ >>>+#define CLONE_NEWUSER 0x10000000 /* New user */ >> >>we have place for 3 namespaces more only. >>Does anyone have a plan what to do then? > > > what about having a new clone syscall with 32 or > better 64 bits reserved for namespace stuff, and > only put basic/generic namespaces or even aggregate > flags into the existing clone interface? > > something like: uts+ipc+user -> CLONE_NEWXYZ > but CLONE2_NEWUTS, CLONE2_NEWIPC, CLONE2_NEWUSER I would suggest to do it another way then: remove CLONES_NEWXXXNS from clone() at all (except for MNT NS for compatibility) and introduce sys_clone_ns() with totatally new 64bit flags like CLONE_NS_UTS CLONE_NS_IPC CLONE_NS_USER CLONE_NS_NET etc. Thanks, Kirill