[Devel] Re: [PATCH 1/1] Revert "[PATCH] identifier to nsproxy"

[Cedric Le Goater]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> This reverts commit 373beb35cd6b625e0ba4ad98baace12310a26aa8.
> 
> No one is using this identifier yet.  The purpose of this identifier
> is to export nsproxy to user space which is wrong.  nsproxy is
> an internal implementation optimization, which should keep our
> fork times from getting slower as we increase the number of global
> namespaces you don't have to share.
> 
> Adding a global identifier like this is inappropriate because it makes
> namespaces inherently non-recursive, greatly limiting what we can
> do with them in the future.

Future will tell us, until then, let's see how useless and buggy this non
feature is. 

So for the moment, I would keep it and let people experiment.

thanks,

C.
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