On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 05:42:07PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote: > Nick Andrew wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:06:09AM +1100, Nick Andrew wrote: > >> Here is a series of 9 patches to init/Kconfig intended to improve the > >> usefulness and consistency of the help descriptions. The patches are > >> against linux-2.6.24.2. > >> [...] > >> Patch 3 > >> USER_NS > >> PID_NS > > What about UTS_NS, IPC_NS and NET_NS? > Their descriptions can be improved in the same way :)
So far I have edited only init/Kconfig, that's what these 9 patches are for. Next I'll do block/Kconfig. Eventually I expect to get to net/Kconfig which is where NET_NS is configured, but I don't know where UTS_NS and IPC_NS come from in 2.6.24.2. I expect I'll have to start patching against a git tree soon, to be sure to see the latest code. I assume this should be Linus' tree? Is there any actual documentation on user namespaces and friends? I think I grasp the pid namespaces concept; I am having a little difficulty visualising what function user namespaces performs. "provide different user info" isn't a very useful description and I'd fix it if I understood what it is supposed to mean. To make a guess at it, how about: Enable support for user namespaces. This is a function used by container-based virtualisation systems (e.g. vservers). User namespaces ensures that processes with the same uid which are in different containers are isolated from each other. Answer Y if you require container-based virtualisation like vservers. If unsure, say N. Nick. -- PGP Key ID = 0x418487E7 http://www.nick-andrew.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = B3ED 6894 8E49 1770 C24A 67E3 6266 6EB9 4184 87E7 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
