On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 05:23:37PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 09:17:07AM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote: > > Thanks for the patch. > > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 8:55 AM Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > The pidctl() syscalls builds on, extends, and improves translate_pid() [4]. > > > I quote Konstantins original patchset first that has already been acked and > > > picked up by Eric before and whose functionality is preserved in this > > > syscall: > > > > We still haven't had a much-needed conversation about splitting this > > system call into smaller logical operations. It's important that we > > address this point before this patch is merged and becomes permanent > > kernel ABI. > > I don't particularly mind splitting this into an additional syscall like > e.g. pidfd_open() but then we have - and yes, I know you'll say > syscalls are cheap - translate_pid(), and pidfd_open(). What I like > about this rn is that it connects both apis in a single syscall > and allows pidfd retrieval across pid namespaces. So I guess we'll see > what other people think. There's something to be said for pidfd_open(pid_t pid, int pidfd, unsigned int flags); /* get pidfd */ int pidfd = pidfd_open(1234, -1, 0); /* convert to procfd */ int procfd = pidfd_open(-1, 4, 0); /* convert to pidfd */ int pidfd = pidfd_open(4, -1, 0);
