From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964905AbWDGTVB (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:21:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964906AbWDGTVA (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:21:00 -0400 Received: from e31.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.149]:58091 "EHLO e31.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964905AbWDGTU7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 15:20:59 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 14:20:52 -0500 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: Sam Ravnborg Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kirill Korotaev , herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net, "Eric W. Biederman" , xemul@sw.ru, James Morris , serge@hallyn.com Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] uts namespaces: Implement utsname namespaces Message-ID: <20060407192052.GB28729@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <20060407095132.455784000@sergelap> <20060407183600.C8A8F19B8FD@sergelap.hallyn.com> <20060407191359.GC9097@mars.ravnborg.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060407191359.GC9097@mars.ravnborg.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Quoting Sam Ravnborg (sam@ravnborg.org): > On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:36:00PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > This patch defines the uts namespace and some manipulators. > > Adds the uts namespace to task_struct, and initializes a > > system-wide init namespace which will continue to be used when > > it makes sense. > It also kills system_utsname so you left the kernel uncompileable. > Can you kill it later? I can insert a #define system_utsname (init_uts_ns.name) in patch 1 and nuke it at patch 3. -serge