Messages in this thread | | | From | Alois Wohlschlager <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pid: Allow creation of pidfds to threads | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:11:40 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 13. April 2022, 06:46:20 CEST schrieb Matthew Bobrowski: > For the fanotify API i.e. FAN_REPORT_PIDFD, I don't see there being > any issues with supporting/returning pidfds which belong to > non-thread-group leaders. In saying that, for this to be useful from > the fanotify API POV, I definitely do think we should consider > supporting the ability to send thread-specific signals via > pidfd_send_signal(). Adding this extension through the optional flag > parameter makes sense to me.
I actually started implementing this, but then took it out again because I couldn't think of a use case. Now that one has been found, I can bring it back in a v2. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |