Re: [RFC] Fast-user-switching plans

[Martijn Lievaart <m rtij nl>]

On 05/28/2010 07:13 PM, Graham Lyon wrote:
> Now I'm no expert on this particular area but I recall that there are 
> now several ways to break a system up into "containers" [1] which is 
> often used to do things like virtualisation. However, would it be 
> possible to utilize the network "namespace" component [2] in order to 
> break off a user's mobile broadband connection into a namespace that 
> only their processes have access to? I'm just bringing this up because 
> maybe the technology to do what everyone seems to agree "should" be 
> possible already is in the kernel.
>
> Like I said, I'm no expert but I think I'll read into it out of 
> curiosity... just wanted to throw it out there for anyone else who 
> might be curious about looking down this path...
>
> -Graham
>
> [1] http://lxc.sourceforge.net <http://lxc.sourceforge.net/>
> [2] http://lxc.sourceforge.net/network.php

Very cool! Sounds like there is still much more integration needed -- 
the whole user environment should use such a namespace, and the global 
networkmanager can interact with the user namespaces --, but definately 
a great step in the right direction. I any work done into moving a user 
environment into such a namespace?

M4