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Date:	Mon, 23 May 2011 08:59:39 +0300
From:	Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lucian.grijincu@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Octavian Purdila <tavi@...pub.ro>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [v3 00/39] faster tree-based sysctl implementation

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> I will mention a couple of nits I noticed while I was skimming through
> your patches.
> - There can be multiple proc superblocks and thus multiple inodes
>  referring to the same /proc/sys file, if there are multiple pid
>  namespaces.


OK. I'll revert the patch that make converts an int counter into an u8
and post an update. I guess this is what you were referring to.
https://github.com/luciang/linux-2.6-new-sysctl/commit/b7a547b8ce7484ae22eea34a860f674fcb19c11b


> - I have a hope to move /proc/sys into /proc/<pid>/sys so we don't have
>  to look at current to determine the namespace we want to display.
>  That would allow the deeply magic sysctl_is_seen check to be removed
>  from proc_sys_compare.  That is not your problem, but of an
>  explanation why the namespaces are passed through.


OK, I'll go an change things to pass the current namespace as it were
before my changes.


Thank you.
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..: Lucian
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