Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756446AbaDVUJW (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:09:22 -0400 Received: from mail-la0-f52.google.com ([209.85.215.52]:34677 "EHLO mail-la0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750811AbaDVUJU (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Apr 2014 16:09:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20140422.160558.627080587952506099.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1397596546-10153-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <20140422.160558.627080587952506099.davem@davemloft.net> From: Andy Lutomirski Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:08:59 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: Implement SO_PEERCGROUP and SO_PASSCGROUP socket options To: David Miller Cc: Vivek Goyal , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , cgroups@vger.kernel.org, Network Development , Tejun Heo , Simo Sorce , lpoetter@redhat.com, kay@redhat.com, Daniel Walsh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:05 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Vivek Goyal > Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 17:15:44 -0400 > >> This is another version of patchset to add support passing cgroup >> information of client over unix socket API. > > I'm marking this patch series as "changes requested" in patchwork > because if we still end up adding this feature SO_PASSCGROUP needs to > be changed to behave like SO_PASSCRED. > > Specifically, like SO_PASSCRED, it should pass the "real" cgroup, ie. > the cgroup at socket open() time. > I suspect that making this change will render it useless, unfortunately. I really want to understand the use case. --Andy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/