[Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/7] uts namespaces: Introduction

[Sam Vilain]

Serge,

I have just imported your series into the GIT repository where I have
been collating the various recent related submissions at:

  git://vserver.utsl.gen.nz/vserver

A summary of the submissions imported to date are at:

  http://www.utsl.gen.nz/gitweb/?p=vserver;a=heads

I will endeavour to continue to collect and catalogue all vserver
related submissions I receive, see on LKML, or get pull requests for, as
a part of my efforts to merge this functionality.

Sam.

Serge E. Hallyn wrote:

>Introduce utsname namespaces.  Instead of a single system_utsname
>containing hostname domainname etc, a process can request it's
>copy of the uts info to be cloned.  The data will be copied from
>it's original, but any further changes will not be seen by processes
>which are not it's children, and vice versa.
>
>This is useful, for instance, for vserver/openvz, which can now clone
>a new uts namespace for each new virtual server.
>
>Aside from the debugging patch which comes last, this patchset does
>not actually implement a way for processes to unshare the uts namespace.
>The proper unsharing semantics are to be worked out later.
>
>Changes since last submission:
>  Restructured patchset so it compiles after each patch
>  Removed EXPORT_SYMBOL for unshare_uts_ns and free_uts_ns.
>    The former is now in the debugging pach and the latter gone
>    entirely, as unsharing is likely not something to be done
>    from modules!
>
>-serge
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