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This would be very useful for us, as it would allow us to work around the kinds of issues we had with /proc/thread-self
when joining PID namespaces -- if you have a PID value you want to operate on but /proc
is from a different pidns, at the moment you will get nonsense results (either an error or -- even worse -- operate on the the wrong process's /proc/$pid
).
The idea would be to be able to get a pidns handle from the /proc
root, which then could be used with NS_GET_PID_IN_PIDNS
to convert the PID from task_active_pid_ns(current)
to the pidns of /proc
. This could then be automatically translated when you use ProcfsBase::Pid
. For fsopen(2)
users, this would be a no-op, but this could be incredibly useful for container runtimes or other systems that mess around with namespaces.
In theory you could do this today with pidfds (since /proc/self/fdinfo/$fd
will convert the PID to the PID of the pidns, but it would be nice to avoid the need for that).