[Devel] Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Resend - Use procfs to change a syscall behavior

[Pavel Machek]

> > > > > An alternative to this solution consists in defining a new field in the
> > > > > task structure (let's call it next_syscall_data) that, if set, would change
> > > > > the behavior of next syscall to be called. The sys_fork_with_id() previously
> > > > > cited can be replaced by
> > > > >  1) set next_syscall_data to a target upid nr
> > > > >  2) call fork().
> > > > 
> > > > ...bloat task struct and
> > > > 
> > > > > A new file is created in procfs: /proc/self/task/<my_tid>/next_syscall_data.
> > > > > This makes it possible to avoid races between several threads belonging to
> > > > > the same process.
> > > > 
> > > > ...introducing this kind of uglyness.
> > > > 
> > > > Actually, there were proposals for sys_indirect(), which is slightly
> > > > less ugly, but IIRC we ended up with adding syscalls, too.
> > > 
> > > Silly question...
> > > 
> > > Oren, would you object to defining sys_fork_with_id(),
> > > sys_msgget_with_id(), and sys_semget_with_id()?
> > > 
> > > Eric, Pavel (Emelyanov), Dave, do you have preferences?
> > > 
> > > For the cases Nadia has implemented here I'd be tempted to side with
> > > Pavel Machek, but once we get to things like open() and socket(), (a)
> > > the # new syscalls starts to jump, and (b) the per-syscall api starts to
> > > seem a lot more cumbersome.
> > 
> > You should not need to modify open/socket. You can already select fd
> > by creatively using open/dup/close...
> 
> That's what we do right now in cryo.  And if we end up patching up every
> API with separate syscalls, then we wouldn't create open_with_id().  But
> so long as the next_id were to exist, exploiting it in open is nigh on
> trivial and much nicer.

Ok, so ignore previous email. You know how unix works.

I believe you should just introduce syscalls you need. Yes,
introducing new syscalls is hard/expensive, but changing existing
syscalls is simply bad idea.

So what new syscalls do you _really_ need? Not open_this_fd, nor
socket_this_fd.

									Pavel
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