Re: [PATCH -mm 5/7] add user namespace

[Dave Hansen]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:14 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Maybe.  I really think the sane semantics are in a different uid namespace.
> So you can't assumes uids are the same.  Otherwise you can't handle open
> file descriptors or files passed through unix domain sockets.

Eric, could you explain this a little bit more?  I'm not sure I
understand the details of why this is a problem?

-- Dave

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