Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965166AbWBHOia (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:38:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965168AbWBHOia (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:38:30 -0500 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:28612 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965166AbWBHOia (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Feb 2006 09:38:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:38:13 -0600 From: "Serge E. Hallyn" To: "Eric W. Biederman" , Hubertus Franke , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Sam Vilain , Rik van Riel , Kirill Korotaev , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, clg@fr.ibm.com, haveblue@us.ibm.com, greg@kroah.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, arjan@infradead.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, saw@sawoct.com, devel@openvz.org, Dmitry Mishin , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: The issues for agreeing on a virtualization/namespaces implementation. Message-ID: <20060208143813.GA2512@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> References: <43E7C65F.3050609@openvz.org> <43E83E8A.1040704@vilain.net> <43E8D160.4040803@watson.ibm.com> <20060207201908.GJ6931@sergelap.austin.ibm.com> <43E90716.4020208@watson.ibm.com> <20060208045614.GB26692@MAIL.13thfloor.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060208045614.GB26692@MAIL.13thfloor.at> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 20 Quoting Herbert Poetzl (herbert@13thfloor.at): > > 3) How do we refer to namespaces and containers when we are not members? > > - Do we refer to them indirectly by processes or other objects that > > we can see and are members? > > the process will be an unique identifier to the > namespace, but it might not be easy to use it, so > IMHO it might at least make sense to ... Especially from userspace. If I want to start a checkpoint on a container, but I have to use the process to identify the container/namespace, well I can't uniquely specify the process by pid anymore... -serge - 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/