Re: [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors

From: Daniel Colascione
Date: Sun Nov 18 2018 - 15:21:36 EST


On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Christian Brauner
<christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> That is, I'm proposing an API that looks like this:
>>
>> int process_kill(int procfs_dfd, int signo, const union sigval value)
>
> I've started a second tree with process_signal(int procpid_dfd, int sig)

Thanks.

> instead of an ioctl(). Why do you want sigval too?

API completeness. The sigqueue interface is a superset of kill, and I
don't want process_kill to do less than any PID-based kill. Maybe
taking a siginfo_t, like rt_sigqueueinfo does, would be even better in
that respect, come to think of it.