Re: [PATCH v2] /proc/pid/status: show all sets of pid according to ns

From: Richard Weinberger
Date: Thu May 29 2014 - 06:20:49 EST


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?
I'm a aware of systemd which uses CLONE_NEWNET/NS to implement security features.

We could add a directory like /proc/<pidX>/ns/proc/ which would contain everything
from /proc/<pidX inside the namespace>/.

This needs definitely more discussion and must not solved by ad-hoc solutions.

Thanks,
//richard
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