Re: [RFC PATCH] fork: add CLONE_PIDFD

[Christian Brauner]

On April 11, 2019 6:50:47 PM GMT+02:00, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:43 PM Christian Brauner
><christian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> RFC-2:
>> This alternative patchset uses anonymous file descriptors instead of
>> file descriptors from /proc/<pid>.
>
>I think I prefer this one. Your diffstat makes it look bigger, but
>that's because you added the example code to use this to that rfc..

Jann and I think this is the correct way to proceed as well.
And this will be way more acceptable for Al too we think.
I have spoken to Joel just now and he's
happy to change RFC patchsets related to
pidfds he has to the anon inode approach as well.
I'll take care to do the necessary coordination before anything
gets sent your way before the next merge window.

>
>Plus making anon_inodes unconditional makes sense anyway.  They are
>always selected in practice to begin with.

Yes, indeed. I coordinated this with David and Al.
They need anonymous inodes for the mount API as well
and thus need anon inodes useable in core vfs functions.

Christian