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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 07:19:57 -0400
From:	jamal <hadi@...erus.ca>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...nvz.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
	Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] net: Implement socketat.

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:56 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 12:51 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 
> > Add a system call for creating sockets in a specified network namespace.
> 
> What for?

I can see many uses if my understanding is correct..
ex, from mother namespace:
fdx = open socket at namespace blah
from mother namespace, read/write/poll fdx 
(eg add route with netlink socket)

cheers,
jamal

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