netdev - Re: [PATCH] connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers

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Message-ID: <20110713124832.GA28307@ioremap.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:48:32 +0400
From:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
To:	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vzapolskiy@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers

Hi Vladimir

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 11:32:37PM +0300, Vladimir Zapolskiy (vzapolskiy@...il.com) wrote:
> This change adds a procfs connector event, which is emitted on every
> successful process tracer attach or detach.
> 
> If some process connects to other one, kernelspace connector reports
> process id and thread group id of both these involved processes. On
> disconnection null process id is returned.
> 
> Such an event allows to create a simple automated userspace mechanism
> to be aware about processes connecting to others, therefore predefined
> process policies can be applied to them if needed.

Looks good to me, thank you.
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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