On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 01:17:47PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Apr 2009, Al Viro wrote: > > > > *growl* > > > > Right, we are out of clone() flags, thanks to namespace-of-the-week > > insanity by openvz bunch ;-/ > > I really think "clone()" is the wrong kind of granularity, and much too > big a hammer. > > You never answered my suggestion about passing in namespace details to the > open routines in nameidata. I don't think it actually needs the whole > thing, the only thing (I _think_) it cares about ends up being just the > root/cwd. The thing is, it wants more - it wants to mount stuff there. Which means that we really want current switched to it, or the normal check_mnt() logics will screw you. I don't have too serious objections against having a reference to namespace in nameidata, but I really doubt that it'll be enough here. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
