When invoking pasta without any arguments, it's difficult
to tell whether we are in the new namespace or not leaving
users a bit confused. This change modifies the host namespace
to add a prefix "pasta-" to make it a bit more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Danish Prakash <contact(a)danishpraka.sh>
---
pasta.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/pasta.c b/pasta.c
index 31e1e000ee1b..7ce502d3f299 100644
--- a/pasta.c
+++ b/pasta.c
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
#include "netlink.h"
#include "log.h"
+#define HOSTNAME_PREFIX "pasta-"
+
/* PID of child, in case we created a namespace */
int pasta_child_pid;
@@ -178,6 +180,7 @@ struct pasta_spawn_cmd_arg {
*/
static int pasta_spawn_cmd(void *arg)
{
+ char hostname[HOST_NAME_MAX + 1] = HOSTNAME_PREFIX;
const struct pasta_spawn_cmd_arg *a;
sigset_t set;
@@ -188,6 +191,13 @@ static int pasta_spawn_cmd(void *arg)
if (write_file("/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ping_group_range", "0 0"))
warn("Cannot set ping_group_range, ICMP requests might fail");
+ if (!gethostname(hostname + sizeof(HOSTNAME_PREFIX) - 1, HOST_NAME_MAX + 1 -
+ sizeof(HOSTNAME_PREFIX)) || errno == ENAMETOOLONG) {
+ hostname[HOST_NAME_MAX] = '\0';
+ if (sethostname(hostname, strlen(hostname)))
+ warn("Unable to set pasta-prefixed hostname");
+ }
+
/* Wait for the parent to be ready: see main() */
sigemptyset(&set);
sigaddset(&set, SIGUSR1);
--
2.45.2