Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:24:40 -0500
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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       "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make /proc/net a symlink on /proc/self/net (v2)
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 12:18:02PM +0300, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> Current /proc/net is done with so called "shadows", but current
> implementation is broken and has little chances to get fixed.
> 
> The problem is that dentries subtree of /proc/net directory has
> fancy revalidation rules to make processes living in different
> net namespaces see different entries in /proc/net subtree, but
> currently, tasks see in the /proc/net subdir the contents of any
> other namespace, depending on who opened the file first.
> 
> The proposed fix is to turn /proc/net into a symlink, which points
> to /proc/self/net, which in turn shows what previously was in
> /proc/net - the network-related info, from the net namespace the
> appropriate task lives in.

Yes, that's a much better way to get this functionality.

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