Re: [GIT PULL RESEND] pidfd changes for v5.1-rc1

2019-03-15 Thread Joel Fernandes
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 6:53 AM Christian Brauner wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > This is a resend of the pull request for the pidfd_send_signal() syscall > which I sent last Tuesday. I'm not sure whether you just wanted to take a > closer look. > > The following changes since commit

Re: [GIT PULL RESEND] pidfd changes for v5.1-rc1

2019-03-13 Thread Christian Brauner
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 05:00:57AM +, Jonathon Kowalski wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for the work on this system call! I am interested in making use of it > in my process supervisor. It works pretty well and avoids the long-standing > issue of PID reuse. Thanks! The systemd folks have been quite

[GIT PULL RESEND] pidfd changes for v5.1-rc1

2019-03-12 Thread Jonathon Kowalski
Hi, Thanks for the work on this system call! I am interested in making use of it in my process supervisor. It works pretty well and avoids the long-standing issue of PID reuse. One thing that instantly came to mind is to be able to delegate killing to some third process depending on the

[GIT PULL RESEND] pidfd changes for v5.1-rc1

2019-03-12 Thread Christian Brauner
Hi Linus, This is a resend of the pull request for the pidfd_send_signal() syscall which I sent last Tuesday. I'm not sure whether you just wanted to take a closer look. The following changes since commit f17b5f06cb92ef2250513a1e154c47b78df07d40: Linux 5.0-rc4 (2019-01-27 15:18:05 -0800) are