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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v5] pidns: introduce syscall translate_pid
To:     Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>,
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From:   NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com>
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On 5/31/2018 11:58 PM, Konstantin Khlebnikov wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>> Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@oracle.com> writes:
>>
>>> Ping? Any additional comments on this patch?
>> Konstantin's v5 no.
>>
>>    I am uncomfortable with unnecessary flexibility.  I don't want to
>>    encourage the increased usage of pids to identify namespaces.  I saw
>>    no arguments in favor of pids to identify namespaces from Konstantin.
>>
>> Your v4 updated to reflect Andrew Morton's concerns in the changelog
>> yes.
> Ok, whatever. If I the only blocker then let it be v4 design.

Thanks! I will resend the V4 patch with a plain text man page for 
translate_pid.

Thanks,
Nagarathnam.
>
>> Eric
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