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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark <zxm927@163.com>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can I move a kernel thread into a special mount namespace
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2016 14:31:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161026123132.GA4721@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <69ad7e46-26ae-2e7b-3eda-31a676203fac@163.com>

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 07:18:43PM +0800, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Our requirement is, a user process sends a command to a kernel (3.10)
> module, and the kernel module creates a kernel thread, which has to be
> in same mount space with the user process since they have to access a
> same path, which is not mounted in root namespace. But seems all kernel
> threads have one parent "threadd", which is in root name space.

Very odd requirement, do you have a pointer to your code anywhere?  What
exactly will that kernel thread do?

And why use such an obsolete and old kernel version?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-10-26 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-16 11:18 Can I move a kernel thread into a special mount namespace Mark
2016-10-26 12:31 ` Greg KH [this message]
2016-11-13  8:50   ` Mark
2016-11-13  9:43     ` Greg KH

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