Hello, On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:27:28AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > > Nah, I think you are right. Systems that provide private namespaces > (beyond chroot) -- which most notably includes Plan9, but also Linux > nowadays -- do so per-process rather than per-user. So a user gets a > private namespace by means of it being assigned to the login shell (and > inherited to all other processes), rather than directly to any process > currently using that UID.
Ah, yes. I think this was in the back of my mind when I objected, but it just didn't get out. ;-) > Presently we don't have any mechanisms for server-side per-process > handling though. (Again, beyond chroot.) While at some point we > mentioned the possibility of introducing one, by allowing clients to > give their PID voluntarily (no idea in what context we mentioned this), We discussed this as a means to implement /proc/self. > I'm still not convinced that this is a good idea in general. Private > namespaces always make things somewhat intransparent IMHO. I agree, unless perhaps it is obviously private, e.g. /proc/self. Regards, Fredrik
