Re: per-process namespace?

From: Ram Pai
Date: Wed Jun 30 2004 - 20:34:04 EST


On Wed, 2004-06-30 at 17:14, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > The per-process namespace concept comes in handy here except for the
> > static nature of the namespace. In the sense, any changes to the system
> > namespace do not reflect in the children namespace.
>
> Static?
>
> It's not static! It's private, as advertised.

> It sounds like you're asking (or your customer is asking) for
> copy-on-write namespaces :)
>
Yes! exactly right. A copy-on-write namespace. That way we dont even
have to invent new interfaces to define maskable mount-points that I
mentioned earlier.


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