Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 20.04.19 01:29, Daniel Colascione wrote:

> The point I'm making, to be> very clear, is *NOT* that process monitoring is "not worth>
considering", but that process monitoring is subtle and complicated>
enough that it ought to be considered as a standalone project,>
independent of pidfds proper and of the very simple and effective> pidfd
system that Joel has proposed in his patch series.

At that point I'm wondering: what pidfd is actually meant for,
if not process monitoring ?


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