Hi, On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:45:05PM +0200, Carl Fredrik Hammar wrote: > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 04:27:28AM +0200, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote:
> > Presently we don't have any mechanisms for server-side per-process > > handling though. (Again, beyond chroot.) While at some point we > > mentioned the possibility of introducing one, by allowing clients to > > give their PID voluntarily (no idea in what context we mentioned this), > > We discussed this as a means to implement /proc/self. Ah, right :-) > > I'm still not convinced that this is a good idea in general. Private > > namespaces always make things somewhat intransparent IMHO. > > I agree, unless perhaps it is obviously private, e.g. /proc/self. Well, this is not really different from the magic lookups implemented so far (TTY, FDs) -- so the obvious thing to do is just adding another magic lookup type. The difference with /proc/self is that the PID is kind of public; so it *could* be handled server-side, if we really wished... But as long as /proc/self is the only use case, it's probably not worthwhile. -antrik-
