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Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated processes

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On Tue, 7 Feb 2017, Jessica Frazelle wrote:

> So I used to use this "feature" as a hack to see if something was
> running in a k8s cluster or not because fluentd gives a lot of things
> away.

That file does not tell you at all whether something is running or not. It
merily tells you that there are timers queued.

> Runc basically decided to mask this file so it stopped happening
> though. But I think namespace aware is the right decision.

Unless you can come up with a real good argument why this is usefull beyond
debugging and crystal ball hackery, it's going to go away.

Thanks,

	tglx

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Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated processes Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-02-04 00:50 +0100
  Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated  processes Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-07 23:50 +0100
    Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated processes Jessica Frazelle <me@jessfraz.com> - 2017-02-08 00:00 +0100
      Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated  processes Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2017-02-08 10:50 +0100
    Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated processes Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-02-08 00:30 +0100
      Re: /proc/timer_list leaks the real pids of the associated processes Kees Cook <keescook@google.com> - 2017-02-08 00:40 +0100

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