Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions

2000-11-29 Thread Remi Turk
Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Remi Turk] > > Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories > > (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux? > > Why do you want to be able to do that? Use symlinks or loopback mounts > and stay out of trouble. Probably just because

Re: CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions

2000-11-28 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Remi Turk] > Do I understand correctly that this means hardlinks to directories > (except . and ..) are fundamentally impossible in Linux? Why do you want to be able to do that? Use symlinks or loopback mounts and stay out of trouble. > (I'm thinking about trying to write a garbage collected f

CLONE_NAMESPACE, links for dirs and mount(2) for normal users questions

2000-11-25 Thread Remi Turk
Hi, Long long ago, (March 2000) Alexander Viro replied to Pavel Machek: >> Am I right that from now on each process can have completely different >> view of filesystem like in plan9? > >Almost there ;-) And yes, the only thing we lack for proper namespaces is >the union-directories (clone() bit i