Re: [patch] PID namespace design bug, workaround

From: Ulrich Drepper
Date: Sat Nov 03 2007 - 00:34:57 EST


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Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Having access to the same IPCs in different pid namespaces won't work.
> Having access to the same filesystem in different IPC namespaces won't work.
> Having access to the same UID namespace in different VFS namespaces won't work.
> Having access to the same <any> namespace in different <many others> namespace
> wont' work.
> [...]


Then explicitly prevent the cases which cannot work in the clone()
calls. Yes, giving people rope to shoot themselves is a Unix tradition
but it's so unnecessary in this case and will only cause support
problems for innocent people.

I bet the result will be that if you have a separate PID namespace you
need to enforce every other namespace as well. There are simply too
many dependencies.

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