Re: [vserver] Re: sys_vserver

[Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>]

* Herbert Poetzl (herbert@13thfloor.at) wrote:
> 
> hmm, okay I see it now clearly, we should take
> the approach which was so successful for scsi ...
> 
> echo "vserver add-new-vserver 100 0 1 192 0 0 1" >/proc/1/attr/new
> 
> and of course to 'change' the context, a simple
> 
> echo "vserver change-to-old-context 100" >/proc/self/attr/migrate
> (and it was never seen again, because it vanished in context 100)
> 
> will be sufficient ...

Sorry if I don't follow your example correctly.  There is an attr/prev
as well as attr/current, if you are worried the previous context would
be lost.

> seriously I am completely on your side if we talk about
> limiting a process or changing it's environment, even
> if we talk about setting a class assignment, but I just 
> don't believe it's the perfect solution for everything ...

Yes, I agree, it won't be useful for everything, but where
possible/sensible, we should reuse it.

thanks,
-chris
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