Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] pidfd: allow pidfd_open() on non-thread-group leaders

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 01/27, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>
> > > > exit_notify() is called after exit_files(). pidfd_getfd() returns
> > > > ESRCH if the exiting thread completes release_task(), otherwise it
> > > > returns EBADF because ->files == NULL. This too doesn't really
> > > > depend on PIDFD_THREAD.
> > >
> > > Yup, understood. It just seems like an inconsistency we might want to
> > > fix.
> >
> > Not sure this worth "fixing"...
>
> Yep, maybe not. Just wanted to point it out.

On the second thought I am starting to understand your concern...

Indeed, in this case -EBADF is technically correct but it can confuse
the user which doesn't or can't know that this task/thread is exiting,
because EBADF looks as if the "int fd" argument was wrong.

Sorry I missed your point before.

Oleg.