linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

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Message-ID: <46929691.8050103@fr.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:12:01 +0200
From:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
To:	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...nvz.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Kirill Korotaev <dev@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/16] Pid namespaces

>>>> 3. Suka assumes that pid namespace can live without proc mount
>>>>    and tries to make the code work with pid_ns->proc_mnt change
>>>>    from NULL to not-NULL from times to times.
>>>>    My code calls the kern_mount() at the namespace creation and
>>>>    thus the pid_namespace always works with proc.
>>> shouldn't that be done by userspace instead?
>> It can be. But when the namespace is being created there's no
>> any userspace in it yet.
> 
> I'm not talking about the 'userspace inside the space'
> I'm talking about the userspace creating the space
> (what if I do not want to have any proc mount?)

yes, can't we let the user doing the unshare or clone decide whether
it needs to mount /proc or not in the new pid namespace ?

that's already optional on the host. 

C.
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