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Subject: Re: chroot vs namespaces (Was: Sys(k)logd running as non-root)
From: Solar Designer (solarfalse.com)
Date: Mon Sep 25 2000 - 20:49:14 CDT

> (nit-pick) since the "locked pid" is just an attribute of a process, it
> should be set using prctl(), not a new syscall.

OK, so it should be even easier to get this into the kernel.

> Instead, you should keep the processes which are using lockpid in a linked
> list - then at fork-time you only need to search those, not for_each_task().

I was planning this (actually, a hash) for future updates of the
code. The patch adding lockpid should be simple to be accepted. ;-)

Signed,
Solar Designer