Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace

From: Laurent Vivier
Date: Mon Oct 01 2018 - 03:14:21 EST


Le 01/10/2018 Ã 06:45, Andy Lutomirski a ÃcritÂ:
> On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:47 PM Laurent Vivier <laurent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> This series introduces a new namespace for binfmt_misc.
>>
>
> This seems conceptually quite reasonable, but I'm wondering if the
> number of namespace types is getting out of hand given the current
> API. Should we be considering whether we need a new set of namespace
> creation APIs that scale better to larger numbers of namespace types?
>

Yes, we need something to increase the maximum number of namespace types
because this is the last bit in the clone() flags and the time namespace
has already preempted it.

Thanks,
Laurent