Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Date | Sat, 30 Mar 2019 10:04:33 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open() |
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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:34 AM Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote: > > Just to be clear, I'm not proposing granting secret access to procfs, > and as far as I can see, nobody else is either. We've been talking > about making it easier to avoid races when you happen to want a pidfd > and a procfs fd that point to the same process
So I thought that was the whole point of just opening /proc/<pid>. Exactly because that way you can then use openat() from there on.
Linus
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