Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:32:38 -0500 | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/4] sunrpc: Use utsnamespaces | From | "J. Bruce Fields" <> |
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:15:34PM -0500, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 15:04 -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > That implies to me you want to capture the value at mount time, and to > > pass it in to the rpc_call creation, and only at very specific well > > defined points where we interact with user space should we examine > > current->utsname(). At which point there should be no question > > of current->utsname() is valid as the user space process is alive. > > Why pretend that the filesystem is owned by a particular namespace? It > can, and will be shared among many containers...
If the only purpose of this is to fill in the auth_unix cred then shouldn't it be part of whatever cred structures are passed around?
But I doubt it's that important to get it right.
--b.
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