RE: [PATCHv5] procfs: show hierarchy of pid namespace

[Chen, Hanxiao]

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> [mailto:containers-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chen
> Hanxiao
> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2014 8:02 PM
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> Cc: Richard Weinberger; Serge Hallyn; Oleg Nesterov; Mateusz Guzik; David Howells;
> Eric W. Biederman
> Subject: [PATCHv5] procfs: show hierarchy of pid namespace
> 
> We lack of pid hierarchy information, and this will lead to:
> a) we don't know pids' relationship, who is whose child:
>    /proc/PID/ns/pid only tell us whether two pids live in same ns;
> b) bring trouble to nested lxc container check/restore/migration
> c) bring trouble to pid translation between containers;
> 
> This patch will show the hierarchy of pid namespace
> by pidns_hierarchy like:
> 

Any comments?

Thanks,
- Chen