From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751360AbWCBR0w (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:26:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751626AbWCBR0w (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:26:52 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:17038 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993AbWCBR0v (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:26:51 -0500 To: Paul Jackson Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@osdl.org, Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Proc: move proc fs hooks from cpuset.c to proc/fs/base.c References: <20060302070812.15674.50176.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20060302084739.GC21902@infradead.org> <20060302062359.5940ff7f.pj@sgi.com> <20060302085217.8ec38ebe.pj@sgi.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 10:09:43 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20060302085217.8ec38ebe.pj@sgi.com> (Paul Jackson's message of "Thu, 2 Mar 2006 08:52:17 -0800") 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 Paul Jackson writes: >> Agreed. However the direction I am gradually moving fs/proc/base.c >> is the opposite. > > Oh - ok fine. > > I had seen something from Andrew a couple of days ago > that led me to a different understanding in this particular > case. As we increase the number of namespaces that we allow multiple instances of in linux. More of the files that are in /proc need to become per process, like /proc/mounts did. I mentioned that to Andrew and I think the message got a little garbled. Eric