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

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 03.06.14 11:21, Łukasz Stelmach (l.stelmach at samsung.com) wrote:

> It was <2014-06-01 nie 07:52>, when 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...
> 
> "sending side"? Do you mean a daemon have to turn it on? IMHO it is
> systemd's job to set up a socket for service to log to, or journald's job
> to "request" this info to be passed to it. What am I missing?

Sorry, it was too early that day for my brain to fully function. Of
course, I meant that the *receiving* side must be able to turn this on,
not the sender, so that journald can turn it on, and it just works for
any client. Sorry for the confusion!

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat