Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] nsproxy: attach to namespaces via pidfds

2020-06-15 Thread Christian Brauner
On June 15, 2020 1:13:37 PM GMT+02:00, "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" wrote: >Hello Christian, > >Looking at this patch, and commit 303cc571d107b that landed in >5.8-rc1, time namespaces were omitted. I assume this was an accident, >since the commit message makes no statement about excluding time

Re: [PATCH v2 3/4] nsproxy: attach to namespaces via pidfds

2020-06-15 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Hello Christian, Looking at this patch, and commit 303cc571d107b that landed in 5.8-rc1, time namespaces were omitted. I assume this was an accident, since the commit message makes no statement about excluding time namespaces, and even mentions their existence as part of the justification for the

[PATCH v2 3/4] nsproxy: attach to namespaces via pidfds

2020-04-30 Thread Christian Brauner
For quite a while we have been thinking about using pidfds to attach to namespaces. This patchset has existed for about a year already but we've wanted to wait to see how the general api would be received and adopted. Now that more and more programs in userspace have started using pidfds for