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

[Eric W. Biederman]

Dmitry Mishin <dim at openvz.org> writes:

> On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:02, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>> The one instance where we clearly need a way to talk about namespaces
>> besides enter is for moving network interfaces between network
>> namespaces and I haven't looked close yet but I don't think either
>> Dmitry or Daniel in their network namespace patches was using this id.
> I didn't implement network devices move between l2 network namespaces yet,
> but this code exists in OpenVZ. And there we use per-container id for this.

Right and currently in OpenVZ you don't have anything finer.  If you look
at cases like nested containers.  It becomes fairly clear we want a
per network namespace id for this operation not a per container id.  As
a per container id can be ambiguous.

Eric
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