From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:23:01 -0600
> > This patch passes in the namespace a new socket should be created in > and has the socket code do the appropriate reference counting. By > virtue of this all socket create methods are touched. In addition > the socket create methods are modified so that they will fail if > you attempt to create a socket in a non-default network namespace. > > Failing if we attempt to create a socket outside of the default > network namespace ensures that as we incrementally make the network stack > network namespace aware we will not export functionality that someone > has not audited and made certain is network namespace safe. > Allowing us to partially enable network namespaces before all of the > exotic protocols are supported. > > Any protocol layers I have missed will fail to compile because I now > pass an extra parameter into the socket creation code. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch applied, thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
