Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.9] fork: add a hook in do_fork()
From: Guillaume Thouvenin <Guillaume.Thouvenin@Bull.net>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:09:21 +0100
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On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 09:56 +0100, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 00:06 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 07:03:17AM +0100, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote:
> > > 
> > >    I don't know if this solution is good but it's easy to implement and
> > > it just does the trick. I made some tests and it doesn't impact the
> > > performance of the Linux kernel. 
> > 
> > What's wrong with the LSM hook already available for you to use for this
> > function?
> > 
> > thanks,
>
> Is it possible to get the parent PID and the child PID which are
> involved when the fork occurred?

I tried to use LSM and it works because "current" holds the pointer to
the parent. Thus, with fields "pid" and "children" I can have the
information.

So thank you very much for the hint,
Guillaume

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