linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back

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Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:14:35 +0100
From:	Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Isolate the UTS namespace's domainname and hostname back

Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> The commit
> 
> commit 7d69a1f4a72b18876c99c697692b78339d491568
> Author: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>
> Date:   Sun Jul 15 23:40:58 2007 -0700
> 
>     remove CONFIG_UTS_NS and CONFIG_IPC_NS
> 
> accidentally removed the code, that prevented the uts->hostname
> and uts->domainname values from being overwritten from another
> namespace. In other words, setting hostname/domainname via sysfs 
> (echo xxx > /proc/sys/kernel/(host|domain)name) cased the new
> value to be set in init UTS namespace only.
> 
> Return the isolation back.

yep. sorry about that. I was going to send the same patch in a 
minute. 

> Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>

Acked-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@...ibm.com>

Thanks,

C.
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