[Devel] Re: pspace name

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Quoting Cedric Le Goater (clg at fr.ibm.com):
> all,
> 
> 'pspace' sounds wrong when you know about the other namespaces :
> 
> struct nsproxy {
> 	atomic_t count;
> 	spinlock_t nslock;
> 	struct uts_namespace *uts_ns;
> 	struct ipc_namespace *ipc_ns;
> 	struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> 	struct namespace *namespace;
> };
> 
> 'proc_namespace' might be confusing, what about 'task_namespace' ?
> 
> 'namespace' should probably be renamed to something like 'mnt_namespace' ?

pid_ns and mnt_ns?

(task_ns is not quite correct, since the task_struct relationships, i.e.
parent->child and session/group, are not really part of the namespace)

Wonder whether Al would have a cow if we rename 'namespace' to
'mnt_ns'...

-serge
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