From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin C.Atkins To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Cc: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Threads: Sewing badges of honor onto a Kernel Message-Id: <20040302101812.35190293.martin@parvat.com> In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 10:18:12 +0530 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 09d7ced4-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 01:30:57 -0800 (PST) Linus Torvalds wrote: >... > The "clone()" system call in Linux just creates a new such "context of >... > The bits you can control the context copy with are: >... > CLONE_NEWNS /* New namespace group? */ >... Does this mean "namespace" in the Plan 9 sense? Is it implemented yet, or was this file written in the "future optimistic" tense? :-) BTW: the definition isn't listed in my man page for clone(2), or my Debian woody header files, however, see below... I heard that Al Viro was doing something in this area some time back, but don't know what happened to his work. (Sure enough, it does seem to do something in 2.4.24 - is this a "best kept secret"? If it works, why aren't we all using it?) Martin -- Martin C. Atkins martin@parvat.com Parvat Infotech Private Limited http://www.parvat.com{/,/martin}