[Devel] Re: [PATCH 3/9] network namespaces: playing and debugging

[Eric W. Biederman]

Stephen Hemminger <shemminger at osdl.org> writes:

> On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:48:43 +0400
> Andrey Savochkin <saw at sw.ru> wrote:
>
>> Temporary code to play with network namespaces in the simplest way.
>> Do
>>         exec 7< /proc/net/net_ns
>> in your bash shell and you'll get a brand new network namespace.
>> There you can, for example, do
>>         ip link set lo up
>>         ip addr list
>>         ip addr add 1.2.3.4 dev lo
>>         ping -n 1.2.3.4
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Andrey Savochkin <saw at swsoft.com>
>
> NACK, new /proc interfaces are not acceptable.

The rule is that new /proc interfaces that are not process related
are not acceptable.  If structured right a network namespace can
arguably be process related.

I do agree that this interface is pretty ugly there.

Eric