Re: what's next for the linux kernel?

From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 18:23:56 EST


> > 1) make namespaces joinable in a sane way
> > 2) wait for the shared subtree patch
> > 3) make pam join the per-user-namespace
> > 4) make pam automount tmpfs on the private /tmp

per-user namespaces on /tmp would solve a lot of the problems faced by
selinux with respect to directory permissions on /tmp/.font-unix
and /tmp/.X11-unix.

there are a lot of legacy apps that no-one wants to modify to get them
to create/read /tmp/x-windows/.X11-unix.

oops.

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