On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:27:59 +0300 Kirill Tkhai [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
pid_ns_for_children set by a task is known only to the task itself,
and it's impossible to identify it from outside.
It's a big problem for checkpoint/restore software like CRIU,
because it can't correctly handle tasks, that do setns(CLONE_NEWPID)
in proccess of their work.
This patch solves the problem, and it exposes pid_ns_for_children
to ns directory in standard way with the name "pid_for_children":
~# ls /proc/5531/ns -l | grep pid
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid -> pid:[4026531836]
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Jan 14 16:38 pid_for_children -> pid:[4026532286]
--- a/fs/proc/namespaces.c
+++ b/fs/proc/namespaces.c
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ static const struct proc_ns_operations *ns_entries[] = {
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_PID_NS
&pidns_operations,
+ &pidns_for_children_operations,
#endif
This interface should be documented somewhere under Documentation/.
But I can't immediately find where the /proc/pid/ns/ pseudo-files are
documented...