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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	"Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 17:30:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oaw5caq1.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)


This patchset implements /proc/thread-self a magic symlink that
solves a couple of problems.

- It makes it easy to get to a specific threads directory in /proc
  with gettid() not being exported in glibc this is currently a pain.

- It allows fixing the problem present in /proc/mounts and /proc/net
  that when the thread group leader exits but the entire thread group
  remains /proc/self/net and /proc/self/mounts and thus /proc/mounts and
  /proc/net become empty.

- As mount and network namespaces are per thread it allows /proc/net and
  /proc/mounts to reflect this.

This is small chance changing /proc/net and /proc/mounts will cause
userspace regressions (although nothing has shown up in my testing) if
that happens we can just point the change that moves them from
/proc/self/... to /proc/thread-self/...

Eric W. Biederman (4):
      proc: Have net show up under /proc/<tgid>/task/<tid>
      proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread
      proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net
      proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts

 fs/proc/Makefile              |  1 +
 fs/proc/base.c                | 18 ++++++---
 fs/proc/inode.c               |  7 +++-
 fs/proc/internal.h            |  6 +++
 fs/proc/proc_net.c            |  2 +-
 fs/proc/root.c                |  5 ++-
 fs/proc/thread_self.c         | 85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/pid_namespace.h |  1 +
 8 files changed, 117 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Eric

             reply	other threads:[~2014-08-01  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-01  0:30 Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2014-08-01  0:33 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 1/4] proc: Have net show up under /proc/<tgid>/task/<tid> Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-01  0:34 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 2/4] proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-06 14:35   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2014-08-06 18:22     ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-06 18:32       ` Serge Hallyn
2014-08-01  0:34 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 3/4] proc: Point /proc/net at /proc/thread-self/net instead of /proc/self/net Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-01  0:35 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 4/4] proc: Point /proc/mounts at /proc/thread-self/mounts instead of /proc/self/mounts Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-01  2:39 ` [REVIEW][PATCH 0/4] /proc/thread-self Davidlohr Bueso
2014-08-01  6:16   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-04 13:12   ` Karel Zak
2014-08-01  6:45 ` Randy Dunlap
2014-08-01  7:01   ` Eric W. Biederman
2014-08-01  7:14 ` Bert Wesarg
2014-08-01  7:45   ` Eric W. Biederman

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