From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750954AbWDSPy4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:54:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750960AbWDSPy4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:54:56 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:50312 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750951AbWDSPy4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 Apr 2006 11:54:56 -0400 To: "Serge E. Hallyn" Cc: Kirill Korotaev , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, herbert@13thfloor.at, devel@openvz.org, sam@vilain.net, xemul@sw.ru, James Morris Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack References: <20060407095132.455784000@sergelap> <20060407183600.E40C119B902@sergelap.hallyn.com> <4446547B.4080206@sw.ru> <20060419152129.GA14756@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:52:42 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20060419152129.GA14756@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> (Serge E. Hallyn's message of "Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:21:29 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Serge E. Hallyn" writes: > Quoting Kirill Korotaev (dev@sw.ru): >> Serge, >> >> can we do nothing with sysctls at this moment, instead of commiting hacks? > > Please look closer at the patch. > > I *am* doing nothing with sysctls. > > system_utsname no longer exists, and the way to get to that is by using > init_uts_ns.name. That's all this does. Ack. I probably read that question backwards. Yes you must at least touch kernel/sysctl.c when you kill system_utsname. I read it as: Can we do nothing better with sysctls that commiting hacks? Eric