Re: [PATCH] enter: new command (light wrapper around setns)

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On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 02:29:24AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>
>>> Inspired by unshare, enter is a simple wrapper around setns that
>>> allows running a new process in the context of an existing process.
>>
>>  It would be really nice to have "ns" in the name -- for example
>>  "enterns" sounds good.
>
> enterns might work.  I am still trying to reconcile that name with
> changing the working directory and the root directory.  Those really
> aren't namespaces.
>
> But name slightly less generic seems to be the popular vote.  Short of
> something better my vote is for nsenter.  enterns sounds way too much
> like interns which has a rather different meaning.

"nsenter" sounds good to me.

Cheers,

Michael

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