liblxc and cgroups

Daniel Lezcano dlezcano at fr.ibm.com
Mon Nov 10 06:48:58 PST 2008


Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I'm playing with liblxc containers and the device whitelist cgroup.
> One thing which makes the devices cgroup unique from the others is
> that there can be many entries to the devices.allow (and in theory
> also to devices.deny) file.  liblxc doesn't support that right now.
> This needs to be fixed in two places.
> First, lxc_conf.c:write_info needs to write multiple entries
> from the .conf file into the cgroups/devices.allow file.  I just
> changed the creat(f, 0755) to open(f, O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_APPEND, 0755)
> which seemed to work for me, but I'm not sure if that might adversely
> affect other code which counted on the truncation implicit in creat()?
> Secondly, the lxc_cgroup_copy needs to do a loop and write the
> entries one by one into the cgroup file.  I'm just doing a dumb
> unsafe fgets loop, but I actually don't have that working yet,
> (which is why I'm not sending a patch - I figure you can whip
> something robust up in 2 seconds)

Serge, thanks for investigating this bug.
I will look how to fix that without breaking previous container 
configuration.

  -- Daniel


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