[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journald: collect process data from socket data

[Lennart Poettering]

On Mon, 02.06.14 12:56, Piotr Wilczek (p.wilczek at samsung.com) wrote:

> 
> On 06/01/2014 07:52 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >On Fri, 30.05.14 12:45, Piotr Wilczek (p.wilczek at samsung.com) wrote:
> >
> >>This patch adds posibility for journal to get process data from
> >>socket data (if available) instead of from procfs.
> >>
> >>Additionally a new procinfo structure is added to store all process
> >>data in single place. This data include creditentials and status.
> >>
> >>To enable this functionality, SO_PASSPROC socket option must be set.
> >>This option is introduced in:
> >>http://lwn.net/Articles/600564/
> >
> >I really *love* this work! It would be fantastic if we could get this done.
> >
> >Hmm, I am not seeting that SO_PASSPROC is actually turned on in this
> >patch? Am I missing something? This really needs to be an option that
> >can be turned on from the sending side, otherwise it would be only half
> >as useful...
> >
> I turn this option in a separate patch, that I will post when the
> kernel patch is accepted. For now I wanted to know opinions about
> this patch.

In case this wasn't clear: the patch for systemd looks pretty OK. I'd
love to merge something like this, but of course we need the kernel
support first. If you can make this happen, I'd be delighted.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat