Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP and SO_PASSCGROUP socket options

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:05 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:15:44 -0400
>
>> This is another version of patchset to add support passing cgroup
>> information of client over unix socket API.
>
> I'm marking this patch series as "changes requested" in patchwork
> because if we still end up adding this feature SO_PASSCGROUP needs to
> be changed to behave like SO_PASSCRED.
>
> Specifically, like SO_PASSCRED, it should pass the "real" cgroup, ie.
> the cgroup at socket open() time.
>

I suspect that making this change will render it useless,
unfortunately.  I really want to understand the use case.

--Andy
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