linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] user namespace : add unshare

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Message-ID: <466D2070.9020306@fr.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:14:08 +0200
From:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@...ibm.com>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Herbert Poetzl <herbert@...hfloor.at>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm 2/2] user namespace : add unshare

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Jun 2007 17:14:12 +0200
> Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
>> Changelog: Fix !CONFIG_USER_NS clone with CLONE_NEWUSER so it returns -EINVAL
>> 	rather than 0, so that userspace knows they didn't get a new user
>> 	namespace.
> 
> This changelog doesn't seem to match this patch.

Indeed. the changelog entry is now deprecated since I removed 
CONFIG_USER_NS. 

that was a fix for the issue you reported about that patch breaking 
the mouse under FC5 when the kernel was compiled without CONFIG_USER_NS. 

C.
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