Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] pid: add pidfd_open()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Sat Mar 30 2019 - 12:18:34 EST


On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:16 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> And no, we are *NOT* making pidfd_open() into some "let's expose /proc
> even when it's not mounted" horror. Seriously. That's disgusting,
> wrong, insecure and stupid.

And btw, this is not debatable. In fact, this whole discussion is
making me feel like I should just revert pidfd, not because the code I
merged is wrong, but because people are clearly intending to do
completely inappropriate things with this.

Get your act together. Stop hacking up garbage.

Linus