uids in task_struct-Further Explaining the Problem
From: sena
Date: Mon Jan 05 2004 - 22:24:42 EST
Hi Robin,
Thank you very much for the previous advice and for your valuable time.
I thought of further explaining the problem to you.
At this stage linux kernel is calculating Load Averages. The major input
of the calculation is number of running exe and Runnables in the
runnable Queue.
This is happening In timer.c
static unsigned long count_active_tasks(void) and
static inline void calc_load(unsigned long ticks)
What I am Trying:
What I am tryiing to do is to seperate the running exe and Runnables
according to the owner of those processes (Say 5 people have login and
they run diffrent processes)
And then seperately calculate the Load Averages for those respective
login users.
The Problems:
The task_struct has a uid field. I have used that field to seperate
them. But the problem is when a child process is created by its parent
then the child inherits the uid of the parents. As a result the correct
uid which is related to the username does not contain in that uid.
Example:
Say a computer has 5 user logins name1(500), name2(501),
name3(502).........name5(504) apart from root. If these 5 people
remotely login and runs there jobs, then the user name of those jobs are
name1,name2 and name3.
Say if they use telnet to remotely login then those Tasks will be
started under telnet server as children.
As the children inherits uid, euid etc of the parents. That means telnet
is run as root and it inherits uid<500.
task_struct has uid and it is updated accordingly.
I have built the kernel 2.4.19sena1 successfully but this is my problem.
The problem because child process inherits uid etc if I start any
process through telnet
Thanks
Sena Seneviratne
Computer Engineering Lab
Sydney University
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