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

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Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:53:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zbr@...emap.net
Cc:	vzapolskiy@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, roland@...hat.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] connector: add an event for monitoring process tracers

From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 16:48:32 +0400

> 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>

Since this isn't really "networking" it would be really nice if this
was taken in via some other tree, you can add my ack:

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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