Re: pidfd design

From: Serge E. Hallyn
Date: Sun Mar 24 2019 - 10:44:14 EST


On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 12:29:31PM -0700, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 11:52 AM Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I really want to see Joel's pidfd_wait() patchset and have more people
> > review the actual code.
>
> Sure. But it's also unpleasant to have people write code and then have
> to throw it away due to guessing incorrectly about unclear
> requirements.

No, it is not. It is not unpleasant. And it is useful. It is the best way to
identify and resolve those incorrect guesses and unclear requirements.