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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, serge.hallyn@canonical.com,
	jlayton@redhat.com, lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	oleg@redhat.com, bfields@fieldses.org, bharrosh@panasas.com,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	devel@openvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: call_usermodehelper_root helper introduced
Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:35:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqqqdfqr.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878v36ex6n.fsf@xmission.com> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Wed, 22 May 2013 10:33:52 -0700")

ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> I am missing a lot of context here and capturing the context of a
> process at time time we mount the filesystem and reconstituing it in
> call user mode helper seems like something we could do.

If we want to do something like this the only sane thing I can see is to
have a per container version of kthread call it uthread.  That the user
mode helper code would use to launch a new process.

Anything else and I expect we will be tearing our hair out for the rest
of our lives with weird corner cases or unexpected semantics.

At first glace I would exepct uthread to be per pid namespace in
implementation.

Eric



  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-22 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-22  7:29 [RFC PATCH] fs: call_usermodehelper_root helper introduced Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-22 16:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-22 17:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-22 18:35   ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2013-05-22 19:23     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-23  3:37       ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-23 19:06         ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-23  8:11     ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-23  8:07   ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-23 10:00     ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-23 10:35       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-23 11:31         ` Jeff Layton
2013-05-23 11:38           ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-23 11:56             ` Jeff Layton
2013-05-23 11:58               ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-05-23 12:25                 ` Boaz Harrosh
2013-05-23 13:05                   ` Jeff Layton
2013-05-23 19:55                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-23 20:14                       ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-05-23 21:32                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2013-05-24  6:04                           ` Stanislav Kinsbursky
2013-11-08 11:58                           ` Jeff Layton
2013-05-24  5:44                       ` Stanislav Kinsbursky

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