On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > > On March 28, 2019 6:38:15 AM EDT, Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> All that said, thanks for the work on this once again. My intention > >is > >> just that we don't end up with an API that could have been done > >better > >> and be cleaner to use for potential users in the coming years. > > > >Thanks for your input on all of this. I still don't find multiplexers > >in > >the style of seccomp()/fsconfig()/keyctl() to be a problem since they > >deal with a specific task. They are very much different from ioctl()s > >in > >that regard. But since Joel, you, and Daniel found the pidctl() > >approach > >not very nice I dropped it. The interface needs to be satisfactory for > >all of us especially since Android and other system managers will be > >the > >main consumers. > >So let's split this into pidfd_open(pid_t pid, unsigned int flags) > >which > >allows to cleanly get pidfds independent procfs and do the translation > >to procpidfds in an ioctl() as we've discussed in prior threads. This > >should also accommodate comments and ideas from Andy and Jann. > >I'm coding this up now. > > This sounds quite sensible to me. Thanks! Thanks! I have it ready and hope to send it out later today. Christian
