Paul Menage wrote: >> No. A reverse mapping is not needed and is not interesting. >> > ... to you. >
You're missing the point of Eric's next sentence. If you can achieve everything you need to achieve and get all the information you are after without it, then it is uninteresting. >> As long as I can walk all processes and ask what namespace are >> you in I don't care. >> > > How do you currently do that? > Take a look at /proc/PID/mounts for example. >> All that is necessary to have a group of processes do something >> in an unnamed fashion is to hang a pointer off of the task_struct. >> That's easy. >> > Right, adding a pointer to task_struct is easy. Configuring how/when > to not directly inherit it from the parent, or to change it for a > running task, or configuring state associated with the thing that the > pointer is pointing to, naming that group, and determining which group > a given process is assocaited with, is something that's effectively > repeated boiler plate for each different subsystem, and which can be > accomplished more generically via an abstraction like my containers > patch. > So make helpers. Macros. Anything, just don't introduce model limitations like the container structure, because we've already got the structure; the nsproxy. Sam. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ ckrm-tech mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ckrm-tech
