Re: + core_pattern-set-core-helpers-root-and-namespace-to-crashing-process .patch added to -mm tree

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

On 12/18, Neil Horman wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 09:06:04PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > > Perhaps its best just to restrict this patch to adjusting the root fs location
> > > for the chroot case.
> >
> > Probably... at least for the start.
> >
> > BTW. Of course this is subjective, but personally I think that "||"
> > looks strange. Perhaps it would be better to add something like
> > --croot argument?
> >
> The || is ambiguous with its simmilarity to a shell 'or' command,

Ah, I didn't mean this.

I meant, this is not flexible. We can implement --croot, then we can
(may be) add --switch_ns. If you use "||" now for chroot, what will you
do for switch_ns?

> but I don't
> think the --croot argument is much better on that front, as that then becomes
> ambiguous with arguments supplied to the pipe reader directly.

Not sure I understand... why?

> The token should
> be leading the pipe_reader string in core_pattern to indicate a change in
> environment independent of the executable path.

Do you mean that || at the front is more "visible" ? True, but I am
not sure this is that important.

But I won't insist.

Oleg.