Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932427AbWBGA2d (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:28:33 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932420AbWBGA2d (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:28:33 -0500 Received: from watts.utsl.gen.nz ([202.78.240.73]:40605 "EHLO mail.utsl.gen.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932423AbWBGA2b (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Feb 2006 19:28:31 -0500 Message-ID: <43E7E998.2020007@vilain.net> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 13:28:08 +1300 From: Sam Vilain User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Kirill Korotaev , Dave Hansen , Kirill Korotaev , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , frankeh@watson.ibm.com, clg@fr.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, serue@us.ibm.com, arjan@infradead.org, Rik van Riel , Alexey Kuznetsov , Andrey Savochkin , devel@openvz.org, Pavel Emelianov Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/5] Virtualization/containers: startup References: <43E38BD1.4070707@openvz.org> <43E3915A.2080000@sw.ru> <1138991641.6189.37.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43E61448.7010704@sw.ru> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 927 Lines: 23 Linus Torvalds wrote: > So if some people don't like "container", how about just calling it > "context"? The downside of that name is that it's very commonly used in > the kenel, because a lot of things have "contexts". That's why "container" > would be a lot better. > > I'd suggest > > current->container - the current EFFECTIVE container > current->master_container - the "long term" container. > > (replace "master" with some other non-S&M term if you want) Hmm. You actually need a linked list, otherwise you have replaced a one level flat structure with a two level one, and you miss out on some of the applications. VServer uses a special structure for this. Sam. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/