[lxc-devel] [PATCH] Use container specific domain socket name

[Serge Hallyn]

Quoting S.Çağlar Onur (caglar at 10ur.org):
> Hi Serge,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>wrote:
> 
> > All right you made me finally take a closer look at the monitor code
> > (which I'd been avoiding).  It's much simpler than I'd imagined.  So
> > here are the challenges:
> >
> > 1. lxc-monitor should be able to watch 'all containers' (at least under
> > a given lxcpath).  That is actually the strong reason to object to your
> > patch.
> >
> 
> Ah, that makes sense.
> 
> 
> > 2. we don't want to force any long-running daemon to run as the monitor.
> > 3. we want to allow multiple containers to send state change info
> > to multiple simulataneous lxc-monitor and lxc-wait listeners.
> >
> > Now I can think of some whacky solutions, but are there any simple ones
> > I'm overlooking?
> 
> 
> I'm not sure what is your whacky solution but if I'm not missing something
> this sounds like multicast :) I'm sorry for my ignorance but did multicast
> unix sockets patch set find its way into upstream kernel?

It looks to be a tough sell to the networking maintainer :)

http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/28/369

-serge