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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by miga on Saturday August 10, 2013 @04:23AM (#6190436)
Not to forget per-process fs namespace, and text-only replacement of ugly ioctls.
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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by justincormack on Saturday August 10, 2013 @06:11AM (#6190585)
Linux does have per process fs namespaces now... ioctls on the other hand...
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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by 4ad on Saturday August 10, 2013 @07:42AM (#6190737)
In Linux CLONE_NEWNS requires CAP_SYS_ADMIN which makes it almost completely useless; it can't be used to the extent and in the way it is used in Plan 9.
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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by yrro on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:58AM (#6190935)
I believe once you create a user namespace (https://lwn.net/Articles/528078/) you can then create the other kinds of namespaces (mount, process, etc.) without requiring privileges outside of your user namespace.

LWN ran a great series on namespaces recently: part 5 (https://lwn.net/Articles/532593/) covers user namespaces.

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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by justincormack on Saturday August 10, 2013 @08:58AM (#6190933)
I think user namespaces allow that without root. Haven't tried yet though...
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