linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt

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Message-ID: <CALCETrWcQtLTVJU14ytWxu_gqoLuAYZJpyAvRsKwwgYZz7FEFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 30 Sep 2018 21:45:44 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     laurent@...ier.eu
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dima@...sta.com>,
        Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
        Linux Containers <containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/2] ns: introduce binfmt_misc namespace

On Sun, Sep 30, 2018 at 4:47 PM Laurent Vivier <laurent@...ier.eu> wrote:
>
> This series introduces a new namespace for binfmt_misc.
>

This seems conceptually quite reasonable, but I'm wondering if the
number of namespace types is getting out of hand given the current
API.  Should we be considering whether we need a new set of namespace
creation APIs that scale better to larger numbers of namespace types?