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Date:	Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:53:49 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Cc:	Simo Sorce <ssorce@...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 Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:55:16AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:

[..]
> >> 2. Docker is a container system, so use the "container" (aka
> >> namespace) APIs.  There are probably several clever things that could
> >> be done with /proc/<pid>/ns.
> >
> > pid is racy, if it weren't I would simply go straight
> > to /proc/<pid>/cgroups ...
> 
> How about:
> 
> open("/proc/self/ns/ipc", O_RDONLY);
> send the result over SCM_RIGHTS?

As I don't know I will ask. So what will server now do with this file
descriptor of client's ipc namespace.

IOW, what information/identifier does it contain which can be
used to map to pre-configrued per container/per namespace policies.

Thanks
Vivek
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