linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/11] SYSCTL: export root and set handling routines

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Message-ID: <m1vcotigyb.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:49:00 -0800
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
Cc:	"Trond.Myklebust\@netapp.com" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	"linux-nfs\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Pavel Emelianov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	"neilb\@suse.de" <neilb@...e.de>,
	"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	"bfields\@fieldses.org" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	"davem\@davemloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"devel\@openvz.org" <devel@...nvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/11] SYSCTL: export root and set handling routines

Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com> writes:

> 19.12.2011 20:37, Eric W. Biederman пишет:
>> Stanislav Kinsbursky<skinsbursky@...allels.com>  writes:
>>
>> Doing that independently of the rest of the sysctls is pretty horrible
>> and confusing to users.   What I am planning might suit your needs and
>> if not we need to talk some more about how to get the vfs to do
>> something reasonable.
>>
>
> Ok, Eric. Would be glad to discuss your sysctls plans.
> But actually you already know my needs: I would like to make sysctls work in the
> way like sysfs does: i.e. content of files depends on mount maker -
> not viewer.

What drives the desire to have sysctls depend on the mount maker?
Especially what drives that desire not to have it have a /proc/<pid>/sys
directory that reflects the sysctls for a given process.

Eric

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