linux-kernel - Re: [patch] PID namespaces

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Message-Id: <200711051447.02232.vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Nov 2007 14:47:01 +0000
From:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Hansen <haveblue@...ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Dinakar Guniguntala [imap]" <dino@...ibm.com>,
	Sripathi Kodi <sripathik@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] PID namespaces

On Sunday 04 November 2007 10:38, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> I.e. keep the namespace functionality but use a modulo 1.000.000 base 
> for the PIDs so that it all looks nicer to the user. Minimal visibility 
> difference but maximum compatibility. (The resulting limits are 
> reasonable: 1 million tasks per container and 4 million containers on a 
> single 32-bit box.) We could still restrict cross-namespace API use but 

4 thousand, not 4 million.
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