On 11/18, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > On 11/15, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > > > I don't understand that one. Having a preforked thread with the proper > > environment that can act like kthreadd in terms of spawning user mode > > helpers works and is simple. > > Can't we ask ->child_reaper to create the non-daemonized kernel thread > with the "right" ->nsproxy, ->fs, etc? > > IOW. Please the the "patch" below. It is obviously incomplete and wrong, > and it can be more clear/clean. And probably we need another API. Just > to explain what I mean. Or, perhaps UMH_IN_MY_NS should only work if ->child_reaper explicitly does, say, prctl(PR_SPAWN_UMH_IN_NS_HELPER) which forks the non-daemonized kernel kthread_worker thread, I dunno. Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
