Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/7] Clone PTS namespace

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Wed Apr 23 2008 - 13:58:04 EST


Quoting Serge E. Hallyn (serue@xxxxxxxxxx):
> Quoting Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > >>
> > >> I'm hoping to be able to get back at this in the week or so as things
> > >> settle down from my move. My last patches should be in my proof of
> > >> concept network namespace tree, if they don't show up elsewhere.
> > >
> > > Is that the tree I'd get from
> > >
> > > git-fetch
> > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/linux-2.6-netns.git
> > > master:ebieder.master
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > > ? So I'd add a user_ns to the struct sysfs_tag_info?
> > >
> > > If so I'll give it a whirl.
> >
> > Sounds good. My apologies I keep being almost on the verge
> > of getting someplace.
>
> Ok I've got the sysfs relevant patches ported to 2.6.25, and am looking
> at how to extend it to handle /sys/kernel/uids. You have tagging tied
> intimately to struct class. So the question is should I generalize the
> taggint to deal with kobjects instead, or create a struct class user
> and make /sys/kernel/uids a symlink to /sys/class/user/uids?

Heh, never mind, I was thinking class was a kobject class, not a device
class :) So I'll just have to generalize tagging.

thanks,
-serge

> Opinions?
>
> thanks,
> -serge
>
> PS: If you want me to post the patchset before handling userns I can do
> that, otherwise I was just going to wait until I'm done with userns.
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