hi, > YAMAMOTO Takashi <y...@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp> wrote: > >> the namespace mapping issue exists regardless where (kernel/userland) >> they are implemented, doesn't it? > > It gets worse if you implement FreeBSD flavor in userland, because you > have to insert the namespace into the attribute name in order to keep > the information when using system calls. > >> anyway most applications only care about the user namespace, i guess. > > glusterfs only uses trusted namespace, for instance. > >> i tend to think it's better to just kill the freebsd flavor of syscalls. > > I think the API is ill-designed too. Even the function names are at odds > with usual Unix practice. > > What we can do is to depreciate the FreeBSD API, and change our code > in-tree to use the Linux API. I think moving things to userland will do > more harm than good.
i agree. YAMAMOTO Takashi > > -- > Emmanuel Dreyfus > http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz > m...@netbsd.org
