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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] uts namespaces: use init_utsname when appropriate
On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 03:44:19AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> There are two ways to avoid the associated problems.
> - modify daemonize to always use the instance of that
> namespace associated with init_task.
> - modify all interesting kernel threads to use the
> kthread api instead of kernel_thread. Using kthread
> makes the kernel threads children of keventd and always
> in the initial namespace instance. As such we know
> we aren't inside of any user space namespace instance.

I've added a deprecation entry for the kernel_thread export and plan
to convert all users to the kthread API. Any help on that is of course
greatly appreciated.
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