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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:12:01 +0400 From: Kirill Korotaev <dev@...ru> To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com> CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>, Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [Devel] Re: [RFD] L2 Network namespace infrastructure Ben Greear wrote: > Kirill Korotaev wrote: > >>Patrick McHardy wrote: >> >> >>>I believe OpenVZ stores the current namespace somewhere global, >>>which avoids passing the namespace around. Couldn't you do this >>>as well? >>> >> >>yes, we store a global namespace context on current >>(can be stored in per-cpu as well). >> >>do you prefer this way? >> > > For what it's worth, I don't prefer this way as I can see wanting to > have one application > use several namespaces at once.... As I wrote to you in another email, it's not a problem, since applications itself do not own network namespace. It is objects like sockets which are binded to net namespace and thus you can have sockets from different namespaces in one application regardless of mechanism of context handling we talk about. Thanks, Kirill - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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