Daniel Lezcano wrote: > Michael Kerrisk wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Daniel Lezcano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> This patch adds the socketat syscall which allows to specify in >>>> which network namespace we want to create a socket. The network >>>> namespace destination is referred by a socket fd previously opened >>>> in the destination network namespace. >> Daniel, >> >> Is there any documentation for this system call, and/or test programs? > > Not yet. > > This small patch is a proposition to Andreas and Vivien to have a single > process being able to manage several network namespaces. > > When a process unshares the network, it creates a socket which is used > as a socket control (it belongs to the network namespace). Each time a > network namespace is created, a socket control is created. > > When the process has to create a socket for a specific network > namespace, it can use the socket control to specify it. This is the > purpose of the socketat syscall.
what about eric's proposal of adding an fd argument to sys_socket() ? was it dropped ? C. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
