* Re: [PATCH V3 0/6] namespaces: log namespaces per task
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@ 2014-08-20 17:43 ` Nicolas Dichtel
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From: Nicolas Dichtel @ 2014-08-20 17:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Richard Guy Briggs, Eric W. Biederman
Cc: linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA,
containers-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA,
linux-audit-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA, netdev
Le 20/08/2014 18:25, Richard Guy Briggs a écrit :
> On 14/08/19, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Richard Guy Briggs <rgb-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public•gmane.org> writes:
>>
>>> On 14/05/20, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>>>> On 14/05/20, Eric Paris wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 2014-05-20 at 09:12 -0400, Richard Guy Briggs wrote:
>>>>>> The purpose is to track namespaces in use by logged processes from the
>>>>>> perspective of init_*_ns.
>>>
>>> (Including the Linux API list due to the additions to /proc/<pid>/ns/.
>>> Please see http://www.kernelhub.org/?p=2&msg=477668 and in particular
>>> http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=477678&p=2 )
>>
>> Sigh if you have to use something like this use the proc inode
>> number. It is the same thing.
>>
>> I hate to claim it is unique absent of the proc superblock but it is and
>> will be for the forseable future.
>>
>> It would be better to include the block device number that appears in
>> proc of 3h of the primary mount of to qualify the number. But it is not
>> particularly important. Coming up with an additional unique number that
>> needs to be maintained seems stronlgy silly.
>
> I am reading a contradiction here:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2013-March/msg00032.html
>
> and this posting went completely ignored:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-January/msg00180.html
>
> And then there was this patchset and thread where there was some good
> discussion to clarify the use case:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/22/662
>
> Then V2:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/9/637
>
> Then V3 3 months ago:
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/linux-audit/2014-May/msg00071.html
>
> I'm about to post another version of the patchset addressing Eric Paris'
> concerns about record types, field naming...
I also try to find a solution to identify netns in userland to solve
some network problems (see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/315933/focus=321753).
This serial number solution may be reused for this.
We really need to find a way to solve this.
Regards,
Nicolas
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