On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 04:24:15PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:37:57PM -0400, John Cotton Ericson wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I was excited to learn about about pidfds the other day, precisely in hopes > > that it would open the door to such a "sane process creation API". I > > searched the LKML, found this thread, and now hope to rekindle the > > discussion; my apologies if there has been more discussion since that I > > Yeah, I haven't forgotten this discussion. A proposal is on my todo list > for this year. So far I've scheduled some time to work on this in the > fall. Keep in mind that quite a few places in kernel/exit.c very much rely upon the lack of anything outside of thread group adding threads into it. Same for fs/exec.c.
