[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:44:19AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There are two ways to avoid the associated problems.
> - modify daemonize to always use the instance of that
>   namespace associated with init_task.
> - modify all interesting kernel threads to use the
>   kthread api instead of kernel_thread.  Using kthread
>   makes the kernel threads children of keventd and always
>   in the initial namespace instance.  As such we know
>   we aren't inside of any user space namespace instance.

I've added a deprecation entry for the kernel_thread export and plan
to convert all users to the kthread API.  Any help on that is of course
greatly appreciated.