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Pavel Emelyanov2868f892007-11-28 16:21:39 -08001 Namespaces compatibility list
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3This document contains the information about the problems user
4may have when creating tasks living in different namespaces.
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6Here's the summary. This matrix shows the known problems, that
7occur when tasks share some namespace (the columns) while living
8in different other namespaces (the rows):
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10 UTS IPC VFS PID User Net
11UTS X
12IPC X 1
13VFS X
14PID 1 1 X
15User 2 2 X
16Net X
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181. Both the IPC and the PID namespaces provide IDs to address
19 object inside the kernel. E.g. semaphore with IPCID or
20 process group with pid.
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22 In both cases, tasks shouldn't try exposing this ID to some
23 other task living in a different namespace via a shared filesystem
24 or IPC shmem/message. The fact is that this ID is only valid
25 within the namespace it was obtained in and may refer to some
26 other object in another namespace.
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282. Intentionally, two equal user IDs in different user namespaces
29 should not be equal from the VFS point of view. In other
30 words, user 10 in one user namespace shouldn't have the same
31 access permissions to files, belonging to user 10 in another
32 namespace.
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34 The same is true for the IPC namespaces being shared - two users
35 from different user namespaces should not access the same IPC objects
36 even having equal UIDs.
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38 But currently this is not so.
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