[Devel] Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] user namespace [try #2]

[Cedric Le Goater]

Cedric Le Goater wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Here's a second version. It's very close from the first one and takes into
> account some discussions we had with kirill on the topic during OLS. 2
> patches follow, the first introduces the user namespace core and the last
> enables to use it with unshare.
> 
> Changes [try #2]
> 
> 	- removed struct user_namespace* argument from find_user()
> 	- added a root_user per user namespace
> 
> execns() syscall is back in the attic for the moment. I'm still maintaining
> it and we'll see if it's of any use when we address the user space API of
> the full conainer. soon, I hope !
> 
> This user namespace patchset does not try to address all the issues that
> were raised by the previous thread on the topic, like user mapping per
> namespace, per mount, etc. It tries to solve some simple issues with the
> current implementation of containers in mind. It should be especially
> useful the existing solutions and lay ground basic objects.
> 
> thanks for your comments,

I didn't get much comments on that one. is everybody happy with it ? can we
merge ask andrew to merge in -mm ?

thanks,

C.
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