On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:12:57AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > See the posting upthread. We could try to kludge around that as well > (e.g. have d_ancestor() compare ->d_inode instead of dentries themselves), > but I really think it's a lousy idea only inviting further abuse. > > What we should do, IMO, is to turn /proc/<pid>/net into a honest symlink - > to ../nets/<netns ID>/net. Hell, might even make it a magical symlink > instead...
BTW, the root cause is that what used to be /proc/net became per-process. So Eric (IIRC) had added /proc/<pid>/net. Only they are not really per-process - they are per-netns. And instead of putting those per-ns trees elsewhere and having /proc/<pid>/net resolve to the right one, we got them as directories, with each entry hardlinked between all /proc/<pid>/net for processes from the same netns. Including the subdirectory ones. Oops... Another variant is to keep cross-hardlinks for non-directories and duplicate directory dentries/inodes as we do for /proc/<pid>/net themselves. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
