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

[Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>]

Am 29.05.2014 11:07, schrieb Pavel Emelyanov:
> On 05/29/2014 09:59 AM, Vasily Kulikov wrote:
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 23:27 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>> On 05/28/2014 10:28 PM, Vasily Kulikov wrote:
>>>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 16:44 +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
>>>> It will be simplier
>>>> to parse the file -- if 'ns_ids' file contains some ID then this ID for
>>>> every ns can be obtained regardless of the specific ID name (SID, PID,
>>>> PGID, etc.).
>>>
>>> True, but given a task PID how to determine which pid namespaces it lives in
>>> to get the idea of how PIDs map to each other? Maybe we need some explicit
>>> API for converting (ID, NS1, NS2) into (ID)?
>>
>> AFAIU the idea of the patch is to add a new debugging information which
>> can be trivially obtained via 'cat /proc/...':
> 
> I agree, but this ability will be very useful by checkpoint-restore project
> too and I'd really appreciate if the API we have for that would be scalable
> enough. Per-task proc file works for me, but how about sid-s and pgid-s?

What kind of information does CRIU need?

Thanks,
//richard