On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 07:06:10AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > There is the boring rmmod case that has always existed. > > There is more interesting case of moving your tap device > into another network namespace. > > In which case there is the possibility of the network namespace > exiting and destroying all of the virtual network devices before > we close the file handle.
In that case what's the problem with holding a refcount to the unregistered device until the process owning the fd closes it? Cheers, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herb...@gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
