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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-07-14 12:25:32 +0200
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2016-07-20 14:53:15 +0200
commit065d31c3601a80dffd278f43619773682ac35b29 (patch)
tree79639273aabecbcf054b1b749d2a277b13cdf50d /src/nspawn
parent00d0fd0619a8651a6fb65c056eddfc87ff8f56ca (diff)
nspawn: document why the uid shift range is the way it is
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nspawn')
-rw-r--r--src/nspawn/nspawn.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
index e4be0a2251..32e40f5d21 100644
--- a/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
+++ b/src/nspawn/nspawn.c
@@ -101,9 +101,11 @@
#include "util.h"
/* Note that devpts's gid= parameter parses GIDs as signed values, hence we stay away from the upper half of the 32bit
- * UID range here */
+ * UID range here. We leave a bit of room at the lower end and a lot of room at the upper end, so that other subsystems
+ * may have their own allocation ranges too. */
#define UID_SHIFT_PICK_MIN ((uid_t) UINT32_C(0x00080000))
#define UID_SHIFT_PICK_MAX ((uid_t) UINT32_C(0x6FFF0000))
+
/* nspawn is listening on the socket at the path in the constant nspawn_notify_socket_path
* nspawn_notify_socket_path is relative to the container
* the init process in the container pid can send messages to nspawn following the sd_notify(3) protocol */