Today there are something things you can use namespaces to implement but the userspace code is unnecessarily complex and fragile because of limitations of the kernel interfaces. This patchset addresses the user interface limitations by introducing proc files you can open to get file descriptors that keep alive and refer to your a tasks namespaces. Those file descriptors can be passed to the new setns system call or the NET_NS_FD argument in netlink messages. This patchset is sufficient to implement linux support for named network namespaces in iproute allowing vpns to be isolated in a network namespace where you don't have to worry about them conflicting with the rest of your network. This patchset is almost sufficient to remove the need for a daemon in a container to allow you to log in. Unfortunately a few of the namespaces are not ready to merge yet so I have left them out. Arch maintainers could you look over patch 7 and verify I have wired up this new system call correctly. These changes are also available at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-nsfd.git -- 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
