1. 10 May, 2011 1 commit
    • Eric W. Biederman's avatar
      ns: proc files for namespace naming policy. · 6b4e306a
      Eric W. Biederman authored
      Create files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ to allow controlling the
      namespaces of a process.
      
      This addresses three specific problems that can make namespaces hard to
      work with.
      - Namespaces require a dedicated process to pin them in memory.
      - It is not possible to use a namespace unless you are the child
        of the original creator.
      - Namespaces don't have names that userspace can use to talk about
        them.
      
      The namespace files under /proc/<pid>/ns/ can be opened and the
      file descriptor can be used to talk about a specific namespace, and
      to keep the specified namespace alive.
      
      A namespace can be kept alive by either holding the file descriptor
      open or bind mounting the file someplace else.  aka:
      mount --bind /proc/self/ns/net /some/filesystem/path
      mount --bind /proc/self/fd/<N> /some/filesystem/path
      
      This allows namespaces to be named with userspace policy.
      
      It requires additional support to make use of these filedescriptors
      and that will be comming in the following patches.
      Acked-by: default avatarDaniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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