linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: call_usermodehelper

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Date:	Wed, 22 May 2013 11:35:56 -0700
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@...allels.com>
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, serge.hallyn@...onical.com,
	jlayton@...hat.com, lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	oleg@...hat.com, bfields@...ldses.org, bharrosh@...asas.com,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	devel@...nvz.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] fs: call_usermodehelper_root helper introduced

ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> I am missing a lot of context here and capturing the context of a
> process at time time we mount the filesystem and reconstituing it in
> call user mode helper seems like something we could do.

If we want to do something like this the only sane thing I can see is to
have a per container version of kthread call it uthread.  That the user
mode helper code would use to launch a new process.

Anything else and I expect we will be tearing our hair out for the rest
of our lives with weird corner cases or unexpected semantics.

At first glace I would exepct uthread to be per pid namespace in
implementation.

Eric

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