Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2014 19:43:30 +0200 | From | Nicolas Dichtel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] namespaces: log namespaces per task |
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Le 20/08/2014 18:25, Richard Guy Briggs a écrit : > On 14/08/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> writes: >> >>> On 14/05/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>>> On 14/05/20, Eric Paris wrote: >>>>> On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 09:12 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote: >>>>>> The purpose is to track namespaces in use by logged processes from the >>>>>> perspective of init_*_ns. >>> >>> (Including the Linux API list due to the additions to /proc/<pid>/ns/. >>> Please see http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=477668 and in particular >>> http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=477678&p=2 ) >> >> Sigh if you have to use something like this use the proc inode >> number. It is the same thing. >> >> I hate to claim it is unique absent of the proc superblock but it is and >> will be for the forseable future. >> >> It would be better to include the block device number that appears in >> proc of 3h of the primary mount of to qualify the number. But it is not >> particularly important. Coming up with an additional unique number that >> needs to be maintained seems stronlgy silly. > > I am reading a contradiction here: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-March/msg00032.html > > and this posting went completely ignored: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-January/msg00180.html > > And then there was this patchset and thread where there was some good > discussion to clarify the use case: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/22/662 > > Then V2: > https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/9/637 > > Then V3 3 months ago: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00071.html > > I'm about to post another version of the patchset addressing Eric Paris' > concerns about record types, field naming... I also try to find a solution to identify netns in userland to solve some network problems (see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/315933/focus=321753).
This serial number solution may be reused for this. We really need to find a way to solve this.
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