Virtualizing /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id per container ?

[Eric W. Biederman]

Glauber Costa <glommer at parallels.com> writes:

> On 09/04/2012 12:42 PM, Glauber Costa wrote:
>> boot_id as a pid namespace id is a very well defined concept. We just
>> need an interface to set it up to make it stable across migration. Maybe
>> we can accept writes to this file as valid, provided the pid namespace
>> has only the init process.
>> 
>> Then any tool could clone, mount proc, set this id, and continue
>> normally. Any objections ?
>
> Ok, the above is totally jet-lag induced garbage. I totally forgot this
> is a sysctl interface.
>
> We do per-netns sysctls just fine, why can't we do them here as well ?

Yes. This is a sysctl.

The definition of boot_id is that it is for detecting stale pids.
So it should be per pid-namespace not per-netns.

The sysctl infrastructure supports per pid-namespace sysctls as
easily as per-netns sysctls. 

Well almost as easily as the glue code to write a register_pidns_sysctl
hasn't been written.  But however the existing hack of looking at
current works fine for the moment as well.

Ultimately I want to get us to /proc/<pid>/sys/ so we can look at
each processes sysctls and tweak them.  But that isn't this weeks
project.

Eric