On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 09:41 -0500, Serge Hallyn wrote: > Quoting Ulli Horlacher (frams...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de): > > > > Is there a way to get the corresponding host PID for a container PID? > > > > For example: inside the the container the process "init" has always PID 1. > > But what PID has this process in the host process table? > > > > ps aux | grep ... is not what I am looking for, I want more robust solution. > > There is nothing that gives you a 100% guaranteed correct race-free > correspondence right now. You can look under /proc/<pid>/root/proc/ to > see the pids valid in the container, and you can relate output of > lxc-ps --forest to ps --forest output. But nothing under /proc that I > know of tells you "this task is the same as that task". You can't > even look at /proc/<pid> inode numbers since they are different > filesystems for each proc mount. > > It's tempting to say that we should put a per-task unique id under > /proc/<pid> for each task. However that would likely be nacked because > it introduces a new namespace of its own. >
An alternative could be to expose the container pid in /proc/<pid>/status. Could such a patch make it to mainline ? --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -337,6 +337,12 @@ static void task_cpus_allowed(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *task) seq_putc(m, '\n'); } +static void task_vpid(struct seq_file *m, struct task_struct *task) +{ + struct pid_namespace *ns = task_active_pid_ns(task); + seq_printf(m, "Vpid:\t%d\n", ns ? task_pid_nr_ns(task, ns) : 0); +} + int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, struct pid *pid, struct task_struct *task) { @@ -354,6 +360,7 @@ int proc_pid_status(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, task_cpus_allowed(m, task); cpuset_task_status_allowed(m, task); task_context_switch_counts(m, task); + task_vpid(m, task); return 0; } Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gk...@fr.ibm.com> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ Lxc-users mailing list Lxc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxc-users