netdev - Re: [RFC V3 PATCH 22/26] net/netpolicy: set per task policy by proc

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Date:   Mon, 12 Sep 2016 20:01:50 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     kan.liang@...el.com, davem@...emloft.net,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: Re: [RFC V3 PATCH 22/26] net/netpolicy: set per task policy by proc

On 09/12/2016 05:55 PM, kan.liang@...el.com wrote:

> From: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>
>
> Users may not want to change the source code to add per task net polic

    Policy?

> support. Or they may want to change a running task's net policy. prctl
> does not work for both cases.
>
> This patch adds an interface in /proc, which can be used to set and
> retrieve policy of already running tasks. User can write the policy name
> into /proc/$PID/net_policy to set per task net policy.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kan Liang <kan.liang@...el.com>

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MBR, Sergei