[PATCH 0/7] Allow changing the transit namespace

Julian Orth ju.orth at gmail.com
Sat Sep 8 15:49:41 CEST 2018


On 9/8/18 3:39 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 14:18:34 +0200,
>   Julian Orth <ju.orth at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> wg set <device> transit-net <pid|file-path>
>>
>> The distinction is made based on the format of the argument. If it is an
>> unsigned 32 bit integer, then it is interpreted as a process id.
>> Otherwise it is interpreted as a file path. /proc does not need to be
>> mounted to use the process id interpretation. To force the
>> interpretation as a file-path, use a ./ prefix.
> 
> Ambiguity is generally not a good idea (especially for security 
> applications). It's not my decision, but I'd rather see the syntax make 
> it clear what the type of the parameter is supposed to be.

The syntax is based on a similar feature in iproute2:

ip link set <device> netns <pid|name>

The syntax of wg seems to generally follow the iproute2 syntax so I 
tried to keep it consistent.


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