On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Nice patches! Ron Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> and I built a few similar
> > things:
> >
> > - imount is a system call we added. It implements private namespaces by
> > combining a "mount without mountpoint" with a chroot operation. This
> > allows a user to sit in an "invisible jail" (perhaps Alcatraz would be a
> > good name.).
Why not use clone() for that? That's what I'm going to do - much better
fits into the interface. No new system calls, BTW. One more flag and there
you go...
> Am I right that from now on each process can have completely different
> view of filesystem like in plan9?
Almost there ;-) And yes, the only thing we lack for proper namespaces is
the union-directories (clone() bit is trivial).
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