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Implement os.setns, os.unshare to allow changing namespaces in Linux #95023

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noamcohen97 opened this issue Jul 19, 2022 · 1 comment
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As for now, changing to a different namespace is really messy, one must use ctypes, and call libc functions to do so.
I think implementing setns and unshare functions will make working with namespaces in Python much easier

@noamcohen97 noamcohen97 added the type-feature A feature request or enhancement label Jul 19, 2022
noamcohen97 added a commit to noamcohen97/cpython that referenced this issue Jul 20, 2022
vstinner added a commit that referenced this issue Oct 20, 2022
Added os.setns and os.unshare to easily switch between namespaces
on Linux.

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Victor Stinner <[email protected]>
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Fixed by a371a7e

carljm added a commit to carljm/cpython that referenced this issue Oct 20, 2022
* main: (40 commits)
  pythongh-98461: Fix source location in comprehensions bytecode (pythonGH-98464)
  pythongh-98421: Clean Up PyObject_Print (pythonGH-98422)
  pythongh-98360: multiprocessing now spawns children on Windows with correct argv[0] in virtual environments (pythonGH-98462)
  CODEOWNERS: Become a typing code owner (python#98480)
  [doc] Improve logging cookbook example. (pythonGH-98481)
  Add more tkinter.Canvas tests (pythonGH-98475)
  pythongh-95023: Added os.setns and os.unshare functions (python#95046)
  pythonGH-98363: Presize the list for batched() (pythonGH-98419)
  pythongh-98374: Suppress ImportError for invalid query for help() command. (pythongh-98450)
  typing tests: `_overload_dummy` raises `NotImplementedError`, not `RuntimeError` (python#98351)
  pythongh-98354: Add unicode check for 'name' attribute in _imp_create_builtin (pythonGH-98412)
  pythongh-98257: Make _PyEval_SetTrace() reentrant (python#98258)
  pythongh-98414: py.exe launcher does not use defaults for -V:company/ option (pythonGH-98460)
  pythongh-98417: Store int_max_str_digits on the Interpreter State (pythonGH-98418)
  Doc: Remove title text from internal links (python#98409)
  [doc] Refresh the venv introduction documentation, and correct the statement about VIRTUAL_ENV (pythonGH-98350)
  Docs: Bump sphinx-lint and fix unbalanced inline literal markup (python#98441)
  pythongh-92886: Replace assertion statements in `handlers.BaseHandler` to support running with optimizations (`-O`) (pythonGH-93231)
  pythongh-92886: Fix tests that fail when running with optimizations (`-O`) in `_test_multiprocessing.py` (pythonGH-93233)
  pythongh-92886: Fix tests that fail when running with optimizations (`-O`) in `test_py_compile.py` (pythonGH-93235)
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