Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] pidfd: verify task is alive when printing fdinfo

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Thu Oct 17 2019 - 04:54:24 EST


On 10/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 06:24:09PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > And why task_ if it accepts pid+pid_type? May be pid_has_task() or
> > something like this...
>
> Given what I said above that might be a decent name.
>
> >
> > OK, since I can't suggest a better name I won't really argue. Feel free
> > to add my reviewed-by to this series.
>
> No, naming is important. Thanks for being picky about that too and I'll
> happily resend. :)

Thanks ;) May be pid_in_use() ? Up to you, anything which starts with pid_
looks better to me than task_alive().

Oleg.