netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Implement SO

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Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:21:35 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	Simo Sorce <ssorce@...hat.com>
Cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	jkaluza@...hat.com, lpoetter@...hat.com, kay@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-03-12 at 14:19 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Simo Sorce <ssorce@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Connection time is all we do and can care about.
>>
>> You have not answered why.
>
> We are going to disclose information to the peer based on policy that
> depends on the cgroup the peer is part of. All we care for is who opened
> the connection, if the peer wants to pass on that information after it
> has obtained it there is nothing we can do, so connection time is all we
> really care about.

Can you give a realistic example?

I could say that I'd like to disclose information to processes based
on their rlimits at the time they connected, but I don't think that
would carry much weight.

--Andy
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