[RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces

Trond Myklebust Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
Tue Jan 6 16:23:11 PST 2009


On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 19:20 -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> If it would be possible, for example, for the 'init' namespace to have
> no network interfaces at all, then it would be nicer to use a name
> that's at least been used with nfs at *some* point--just on the general
> principle of not leaking information to a domain that the user wouldn't
> expect it to.

Then RPC would fail. Thanks to the limitations imposed by selinux &
friends, all RPC sockets have to be owned by the init process.
-- 
Trond Myklebust
Linux NFS client maintainer

NetApp
Trond.Myklebust at netapp.com
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