Re: [PATCH RFC v5] pidns: introduce syscall translate_pid

[Eric W. Biederman]

NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On 5/31/2018 11:58 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Eric W. Biederman
>> <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> Ping? Any additional comments on this patch?
>>> Konstantin's v5 no.
>>>
>>>    I am uncomfortable with unnecessary flexibility.  I don't want to
>>>    encourage the increased usage of pids to identify namespaces.  I saw
>>>    no arguments in favor of pids to identify namespaces from Konstantin.
>>>
>>> Your v4 updated to reflect Andrew Morton's concerns in the changelog
>>> yes.
>> Ok, whatever. If I the only blocker then let it be v4 design.
>
> Thanks! I will resend the V4 patch with a plain text man page for
> translate_pid.

I believe Andrew was also asking for the motivating use case in the
description of the patch.

Thank you,
Eric