On Fri, Dec 08, 2023 at 02:15:58PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Christian Brauner: > > > File descriptors are reachable for all processes/threads that share a > > file descriptor table. Changing that means breaking core userspace > > assumptions about how file descriptors work. That's not going to happen > > as far as I'm concerned. > > It already has happened, though? Threads are free to call > unshare(CLONE_FILES). I'm sure that we have applications out there that If you unshare a file descriptor table it will affect all file descriptors of a given task. We don't allow hiding individual or ranges of file descriptors from close/dup. That's akin to a partially shared file descriptor table which is conceptually probably doable but just plain weird and nasty to get right imho. This really is either LSM territory to block such operations or use stuff like io_uring gives you.