On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 01:29:23PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > Anyway, clone(2) is an enormous mess. Surely the right solution here > is to have a whole new process creation API that takes a big, > extensible struct as an argument, and supports *at least* the full > abilities of posix_spawn() and ideally covers all the use cases for > fork() + do stuff + exec(). It would be nifty if this API also had a > way to say "add no_new_privs and therefore enable extra functionality > that doesn't work without no_new_privs". This functionality would > include things like returning a future extra-privileged pidfd that > gives ptrace-like access. You had been two weeks too late with that, and a bit too obvious with the use of "surely" too close to the beginning... If it was _not_ a belated AFD posting, alt.tasteless is over -> that way...
