Re: [PATCH 4/4] keys: make procfiles per-user-namespace

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Mon Feb 23 2009 - 15:41:19 EST


Quoting David Howells (dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx):
> Serge E. Hallyn <serue@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Restrict the /proc/keys and /proc/key-users output to keys
> > belonging to the same user namespace as the reading task.
> >
> > We may want to make this more complicated - so that any
> > keys in a user-namespace which is belongs to the reading
> > task are also shown. But let's see if anyone wants that
> > first.
>
> Hmmm... I wonder if we can do better by making the file position indicate the
> key ID rather than being a count of the number of keys read. It might make
> this cleaner.

file position? as in the result of lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR)?

I don't understand what you're suggesting.

-serge
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