Re: Hacking gnumach to track parental relationship of tasks

[Ludovic Courtès]

Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> skribis:

> Richard Braun, le Thu 12 Sep 2013 10:57:25 +0200, a écrit :
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:38:31AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
>> > Richard Braun, le Thu 12 Sep 2013 10:33:23 +0200, a écrit :
>> > > Then why are we discussing interposing system calls ?
>> > 
>> > Because a malicious program can still use the trap to escape whatever
>> > cgroup system we are setting up.
>> 
>> I suggest we simply disable the trap versions.
>
> Ah, right.
>
> I don't have the time to dive into the details, but in the end, couldn't
> we switch to making task_create rather a proc RPC, rather than relying
> on process nicely calling the proc proc_child RPC after having created
> the task? proc would be doing the "kernel" task_create RPC on behalf
> of the process. The main proc server would actually make a kernel RPC,
> a sub-hurd proc server would nicely ask for it, thus not having to be
> root.

But you’d still need a “real” task_create anyway, no?

(I think the theory was that it should be possible to have a system
where both POSIX-personality processes (known to proc) and other tasks
would coexist in peace and harmony.)

Ludo’.