Re: [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Dec 06 2018 - 13:31:01 EST


On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I feel changing the name around by a single persons preferences is not
> really a nice thing to do community-wise. So I'd like to hear other
> people chime in first before I make that change.

I don't think the name is hugely critical (but it's always the hardest
to settle on). My preference order would be:

taskfd_send_signal()
pidfd_send_signal()
procfd_send_signal()
fd_send_signal()

But, agreed, I think fdkill() should not be used.

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Kees Cook