Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 30 Mar 2019 09:09:10 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open() |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:54 AM Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> wrote: > > /* Introduction */ > This adds the pidfd_open() syscall. > pidfd_open() allows to retrieve file descriptors for a given pid. This > includes both file descriptors for processes and file descriptors for > threads.
I'm ok with the pidfd_open() call to just get a pidfd, but that "pidfd_to_profs()" needs to go away.
If you want to open the /proc/<pid>/status file, then just do that. This whole "do one and convert to the other" needs to die. No, no, no.
Linus
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