# Re: \[RFC 1/2\] fs,eventpoll: Add ability to install target file by its number

- From: Andy Lutomirski \<hidden\>
- Date: 2017-02-17 16:53:21 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2017/02/117796
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2017/02/117797/t.md

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On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 12:30 AM, Cyrill Gorcunov [ref] wrote:
> When we checkpoint a process we look into /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> of eventpoll
> file and parse target files list from there. In most situations this is fine
> because target file is present in the /proc/<pid>/fd/ list. But in case if file
> descriptor was dup'ed or transferred via unix socket and closed after,
> it might not be in the list and we can't figure out which file descriptor
> to pass into epoll_ctl call.
>
> To resolve this tie lets add EPOLL_CTL_DUP operation which simply takes
> target file descriptor number and installs it into a caller's file table,
> thus we can use kcmp() syscall and figure out which exactly file to be
> added into eventpoll on restore procedure.

This is a scary thing to let an unprivileged process do.

I'm wondering if there might be a nicer way to address this using a
better interface in /proc.
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