Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] pid: add pidctl()

From: Daniel Colascione
Date: Tue Mar 26 2019 - 12:17:24 EST


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.