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From: ebiederm@xmission•com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical•com>
Cc: shemminger@osdl•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: potential upgrade regression with 58a3e827
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2013 14:42:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqkiy0qb.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527D65FB.8000407@canonical.com> (Chris J. Arges's message of "Fri, 08 Nov 2013 16:30:19 -0600")

Chris J Arges <chris.j.arges@canonical•com> writes:

> Fair enough. I really wanted to get a feel if this seemed like an actual
> bug, or rather it's behaving like we'd expect. I don't mind writing
> code, but I want to know if I'm hunting a bug, or adding a feature.

Making it ip netns add work reliably inside of ip netns exec and
handling all of the permutations is adding a feature.

Understanding why ip netns exec is failing in your specific case sounds
like there may be a missing error message.  Clearly you get into a
context where /var/run/netns/netns_old is no the bind mount we would
expect it to be.

I saw nothing that should unmake /var/run/netns/nnetns_old  as a mount
point.  So something strange is going on.

So you might want to go through and inspect to see what is happening.
Perhaps there is a missing error message somewhere.

Without understanding why that mountpoint fails to exist I can't say if
it is a real bug or if it just something weird caused by using an ip
netns exec it was not designed to be used and is known not to be 100%
robust in.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08 22:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-08 18:03 iproute2: potential upgrade regression with 58a3e827 Chris J Arges
2013-11-08 21:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-11-08 22:30   ` Chris J Arges
2013-11-08 22:42     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-11-09 17:00 ` Brian Haley
2013-11-11 21:26   ` Chris J Arges
2013-11-11 21:38     ` Dilip Daya
2013-11-11 22:40       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-11-12  0:36         ` Dilip Daya
2013-12-13 18:46           ` [PATCH] " Chris J Arges
2013-12-13 18:55             ` Stephen Hemminger

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