Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:35:52 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Mike Waychison <Michael.Waychison@Sun.COM>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>, akpm@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jtk@us.ibm.com, wtaber@us.ibm.com,
       pbadari@us.ibm.com, markv@us.ibm.com,
       viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Restore files_lock and set_fs_root exports
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 08:59:31PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > Well, autofsng patches (new set forthcoming) use set_fs_root/set_fs_pwd
> > to pivot a call_usermodehelper process into the triggering process's
> > namespace.
> 
> Once we get anywhere where this is needed we'll find a better interface
> for that.  Like call_usermodehelper_in_namespace() or something even
> better.

Ah, a function like that would be nice to help with some issues that I
imagine the virtual-linux (or whatever that patch is called) people will
be having with udev and hotplug.  But as they haven't complained yet, I
haven't been very moved to look into it...

thanks,

greg k-h
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