NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 3/23/2018 2:33 PM, ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> NAGARATHNAM MUTHUSAMY <nagarathnam.muthusamy@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> >>> Thanks! >>> >>> Reviewed-by: Nagarathnam Muthusamy <nagarathnam.muthusamy@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Does this look like it will address the issue you have been fighting >> with pids? > > We do use IPC shared memory but it is a single large one, shared by multiple > levels. We are currently looking into using a similar solution based on file > locks. > When a new level is created, a file representing that level could be created in > a common path which could be locked by the init process of that level. > Parent levels could query the locking pid of that file to get the pid > translation > of the init process of the required level. Then it could open a file descriptor > and use the translate_pid API for further translations. Do you want to resend the translate_pid API with file descriptors as it was in the lwn article? That I will apply. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
