Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:02:14 +1300 | From | Sam Vilain <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/6] prepare sysctls for containers |
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Dave Hansen wrote:
>>Interesting idea. One piece that's missing is strategy for controlling >>creation the new context (assuming the data_access() will always evaluate >>into a context sensitive piece of data). Otherwise a user can get out >>of the limits imposed by sysadmin (since they may have placed themselves >>in a context which differs from admin). >> >> >Yup, that is missing for now. We couldn't agree on quite which >implementation we want for basic containers/vservers/vpses. So, for >now, making it useful is left as an exercise to the reader. :) > >BTW, the current code _is_ potentially context sensitive because >"current" provides much of the context that we will ever need. > >
I have an RFC quality submission ready, extracted from Herbert's work. I'll prepare and forward it to the ML now for reference.
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