Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing control.

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From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010 - 1:35 pm

> No, the plan is only one namespace at a time.

Looking at this a bit more I am frustrated and relieved.

I was looking at what it would take to join an arbitrary mount
namespace and I realized it is completely non-obvious what fs->root
and fs->pwd should be set to.

If I leave them untouched the new mount namespace is useless,
as all path lookups will give results in a different mount namespace,
so not even mount or umount can be used.

I can not change fs->root to mnt_ns->root as that is rootfs and there
is always something mounted on top so I can not use that.

In comparison an unshare of the mount namespace doesn't have to move
fs->root or fs->pwd at all and only has to update their mounts to
the corresponding mounts in the new mount namespace.

I might be able to find the topmost root filesystem and put at least
root there, but I'm not particularly fond of that option.

Eric





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[RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing con ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 1:57 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 2:49 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 2:54 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 3:31 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 5:53 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 6:26 pm)
[RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing con ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Thu Feb 25, 8:15 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 1:35 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 2:24 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 2:42 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 2:49 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 3:16 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Fri Feb 26, 4:13 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Feb 27, 2:04 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Feb 27, 2:42 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Feb 27, 12:08 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Sat Feb 27, 12:44 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Mar 1, 12:24 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Sukadev Bhattiprolu, (Tue Mar 2, 2:19 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Sukadev Bhattiprolu, (Tue Mar 2, 5:07 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Wed Mar 3, 12:47 pm)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Mar 8, 10:29 am)
Re: [RFC][PATCH] ns: Syscalls for better namespace sharing ..., Eric W. Biederman, (Mon Mar 8, 10:35 am)