Re: semantics of TRYEMULROOT

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%tombi.co.jp@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 04, 2011 at 07:04:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:01:17AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> > IMO emul lookup is completely a hack, and it should be redesigned
> > using per-process namespace....
> 
> It is a lot less of a hack than what went before.
> The only other option would be an actual (working) union mount,
> and that has much bigger problems - not to mention needing
> process specific mount tables!

Bigger problems, yes.  But the only real solution!

> 
> OTOH I do wish the 32bit/64bit compatibility had been done as part of
> the '64bit' port - so that the 64bit userspace doesn't have to rename
> anything from the 32bit version - giving you a userpace that can
> (at least in theory) boot either a 32bit or 64bit kernel.

Do you mean multilib directories?

> 
>       David
> 
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