[lxc-devel] RFC: Device Namespaces

Jeremy Andrus jeremya at cs.columbia.edu
Wed Sep 25 21:17:08 UTC 2013


On Sep 25, 2013, at 4:23 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:

> Janne Karhunen <janne.karhunen at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> That being said, is there a valid reason why binder is part of device
>> namespace here instead of IPC?
> 
> I think the practical issue with binder was simply that binder only
> allows for a single instance and thus is does not play nicely with
> containers.

It's true that there was a singleton paradigm in binder that had to be
overcome, but I agree with Janne. It really belongs in the IPC namespace,
and I don't see any technical reason not to move it there.

        -Jeremy




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