Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 May 2014 14:36:56 +0400 | From | Pavel Emelyanov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] /proc/pid/status: show all sets of pid according to ns |
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On 05/29/2014 02:19 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 29.05.2014 12:02, schrieb Pavel Emelyanov: >>>> We need to know what pid namespaces a task lives in and how pid, sid and >>>> pgid look in all of them. A short example with pids only >>> >>> So use case is to checkpoint/restore nested containers? :) >> >> Yes, but there's one more scenario. AFAIK some applications create pid namespaces >> themselves, without starting what is typically called "a container" :) And when >> such an applications are run inside, well ... "more real" container (e.g. using >> openvz, lxc or docker tools) we face this issue. > > Do you know such an application?
There were a couple of them reported on the criu mailing list, but I didn't track those :(
> I'm a aware of systemd which uses CLONE_NEWNET/NS to implement security features.
Yup, this is its typical behavior.
> We could add a directory like /proc/<pidX>/ns/proc/ which would contain everything > from /proc/<pidX inside the namespace>/.
But how would it help to find out which $pid directories correspond to which to properly collect the pid mappings?
> This needs definitely more discussion and must not solved by ad-hoc solutions.
Absolutely.
Thanks, Pavel
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