Re: For review: pidfd_send_signal(2) manual page

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Christian,

On 9/23/19 4:29 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 11:12:00AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> Hello Christian and all,
>>
>> Below, I have the rendered version of the current draft of
>> the pidfd_send_signal(2) manual page that I have written.
>> The page source can be found in a Git branch at:
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git/log/?h=draft_pidfd
>>
>> I would be pleased to receive corrections and notes on any
>> details that should be added. (For example, are there error
>> cases that I have missed?)
>>
>> Would you be able to review please?
> 
> Michael,
> 
> A big big thank you for doing this! Really appreciated.
> I'm happy to review this!
> 
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> NAME
>>        pidfd_send_signal - send a signal to a process specified by a file
>>        descriptor
>>
>> SYNOPSIS
>>        int pidfd_send_signal(int pidfd, int sig, siginfo_t info,
>>                              unsigned int flags);
>>
>> DESCRIPTION
>>        The pidfd_send_signal() system call sends the signal  sig  to  the
>>        target  process  referred  to by pidfd, a PID file descriptor that
>>        refers to a process.
>>
>>        If the info argument points to a  siginfo_t  buffer,  that  buffer
>>        should be populated as described in rt_sigqueueinfo(2).
>>
>>        If  the  info  argument  is  a NULL pointer, this is equivalent to
>>        specifying a pointer to a siginfo_t buffer whose fields match  the
>>        values  that  are  implicitly supplied when a signal is sent using
>>        kill(2):
>>
>>        *  si_signo is set to the signal number;
>>        *  si_errno is set to 0;
>>        *  si_code is set to SI_USER;
>>        *  si_pid is set to the caller's PID; and
>>        *  si_uid is set to the caller's real user ID.
>>
>>        The calling process must either be in the same  PID  namespace  as
>>        the  process  referred  to  by pidfd, or be in an ancestor of that
>>        namespace.
>>
>>        The flags argument is reserved for  future  use;  currently,  this
>>        argument must be specified as 0.
>>
>> RETURN VALUE
>>        On  success,  pidfd_send_signal()  returns  0.   On success, -1 is
> 
> This should probably be "On error, -1 is [...]".

Thanks. Fixed.


Cheers,

Michael


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