network namespace support in selftest (was: Re: socket-wrapper fd-passing)

[Stefan Metzmacher]

Am 24.06.20 um 23:26 schrieb Andrew Bartlett:
> On Wed, 2020-06-24 at 23:14 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher via samba-
> technical wrote:
>> Hi Anoop,
>>
>> I rebased your fd-passing patches on top of socket_wrapper master.
>>
>> See https://gitlab.com/metze/socket_wrapper/-/commits/fd-passing/
>>
>> Please also notice my commit on top where I added some more hints
>> on a better design:
> 
> I've not looked into this in any detail at all, and I'm sure you are
> aware that with the network namespace mode for selftest we can avoid
> socket_wrapper and so base ourselves directly on kernel sockets.  
> 
> This of course requires privileges so has other implications, but I
> wanted to mention this more broadly in case this helps us get out of a
> tight spot here.
> 
> This is the work Tim Beale did a year or so ago.

Yes, I'm aware of it, but it's Linux only.
We may be able to make use of it for smb-direct testing (which will most
likely be Linux only too). But multi-channel should at least also be
testable on FreeBSD with just 'make test'.

metze


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