[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/5] utsname namespaces: sysctl hack

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue at us.ibm.com> writes:

> Quoting Kirill Korotaev (dev at sw.ru):
>> Serge,
>> 
>> can we do nothing with sysctls at this moment, instead of commiting hacks?
>
> Please look closer at the patch.
>
> I *am* doing nothing with sysctls.
>
> system_utsname no longer exists, and the way to get to that is by using
> init_uts_ns.name.  That's all this does.

Ack.  I probably read that question backwards.

Yes you must at least touch kernel/sysctl.c when you kill
system_utsname.

I read it as: Can we do nothing better with sysctls that commiting hacks?

Eric