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Bug#595920: lxc-attach infrastructure in kernel 3.8



On Fri, 2013-01-11 at 16:36 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Control: tag -1 fixed-upstream
> 
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:14:48PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> > The 3.8 kernel contains the necessary functionality to enable
> > lxc-attach. See http://lwn.net/Articles/531381/:
> > 
> > >In earlier kernel versions, it was not possible to use setns() to
> > >join mount, PID, and user namespaces, but, starting with Linux
> > >3.8, setns() now supports joining all namespace types.
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether the kernel team has an apropriate bts tag to
> > attach to this bugreport to note that once a 3.8 kernel is in
> > debian, then this bug can be closed?
> > *t
> 
> Well, it can be marked as fixed in a version even if that version
> doesn't yet exist.  But that doesn't close it, so no.

This will be closed by the next upload to experimental.

Note that user namespaces will still not be supported because a number
of important filesystems are not yet compatible with them.  I'm hoping
this will be fixed over the next few upstream versions.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Sturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crap.

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