Another daemon for managing control groups
Another daemon for managing control groups
Posted Dec 10, 2013 18:10 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Another daemon for managing control groups by khim
Parent article: Another daemon for managing control groups
Because it will have ALL the faults of suid and lots of additional faults of a half-baked userspace implementation. For example, think about signals (especially RT signals and SIGSTOP/SIGKILL). I can kill my SUID program using a straightforward "kill" utility, how would you do this with SuidD?
I'm actually speaking from experience - we have such a daemon in our system. It's simply not possible to replicate all the kernel-level functionality.
SystemD is repeating ALL the problems of this approach. For example, they have to cobble something together to handle delegation to containers while simple bind-mount is enough right now to nest cgroups.
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