On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 21:55:53 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > A more concrete scenario is creating a network namespace, moving a > device into it via RTM_SETLINK which also supports IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID} > and then wanting to query the device. This would be very easy to do if > one could reuse the IFLA_NET_NS_{FD,PID} without having to set a > netnsid.
Wouldn't be a better solution to have a way to request the netnsid allocation (and return it) right away when creating the name space, then? Jiri