[RFC][PATCH 0/7] Clone PTS namespace

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Wed Apr 9 15:38:08 PDT 2008


serge at hallyn.com wrote:
>> I'm just worried about the accumulation of what feels like ad hoc 
>> namespaces, causing a very large combination matrix, a lot of which don't 
>> make sense.
> 
> Hmm, if we were to just call this CLONE_NEWDEV, would that (a) make
> sense and (b) suitably address your (certainly valid) concern?
> 
> Basically for now CLONE_NEWDEV wouldn't yet be fully implemented, only
> unsharing unix98 ptys...

That would make sense to me.  Also see Eric's note about uevent, 
however; and there are probably other issues like it.

	-hpa


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