Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 May 2006 11:18:36 +1200 | From | Sam Vilain <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] namespaces: uts_ns: make information visible via /proc/PID/uts directory |
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>Sorry for the duplication of this to the list, stuffed up the stgit >>command. >> >>After doing this I noticed that the whole way this is done via sysctls >>in /proc/sys is much, much nicer. I was going there to make >>/proc/sys/kernel/osname -> /proc/self/uts/sysname (etc), but it seems >>that symlinks from /proc/sys are not a done thing. >> >>Is there an argument here perhaps for some integration between the way >>this is done for /proc/sys and /proc/PID/xxx ? >> >> fs/proc/base.c | 236 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> 1 files changed, 236 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) >> >> > >Good intentions :) >But since this doesn't actually fix /proc/sys/kernel/osname and friends. >I would call this implementation a failure. > >
Yes, actually my second failure from yesterday's efforts. Thought I'd better send something though.
>Let's first fix /proc/sys/kernel/osname to be sensitive to the caller, >and then see if we can make /proc/sys a symlink to /proc/<pid>/sys > >
Ok, that sounds like a much simpler starting point, I'll see what I can cook up.
The only thing was, the names were odd and "machine" was missing.
Isn't everything under /proc/<pid> effectively a sysctl? Wouldn't it be much nicer to re-use that infrastructure for everything under there?
Sam.
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