Nick Andrew wrote: > On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: >> Nick Andrew wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: >>>> Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the >>>> usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are >>>> against linux-2.6.24.2. >>>> [...] >>>> Patch 3 >>>> USER_NS >>>> PID_NS >> What about UTS_NS, IPC_NS and NET_NS? >> Their descriptions can be improved in the same way :) > > So far I have edited only init/Kconfig, that's what these 9 > patches are for. Next I'll do block/Kconfig. Eventually I expect > to get to net/Kconfig which is where NET_NS is configured, > but I don't know where UTS_NS and IPC_NS come from in 2.6.24.2. > > I expect I'll have to start patching against a git tree soon, > to be sure to see the latest code. I assume this should be > Linus' tree?
Both UTS_NS and IPC_NS are in init/Kconfg. At least they are in 2.6.25-rc2 :) > Is there any actual documentation on user namespaces and friends? Hardly :( > I think I grasp the pid namespaces concept; I am having a little > difficulty visualising what function user namespaces performs. > "provide different user info" isn't a very useful description and > I'd fix it if I understood what it is supposed to mean. The pid namespaces are described here: http://lwn.net/Articles/259217/ > To make a guess at it, how about: > > Enable support for user namespaces. > > This is a function used by container-based virtualisation systems > (e.g. vservers). User namespaces ensures that processes with the > same uid which are in different containers are isolated from each other. > > Answer Y if you require container-based virtualisation like > vservers. If unsure, say N. You'd better talk to Serge Hallyn (in Cc) about them. He had some thoughts on how to complete them :) > Nick. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
