Messages in this thread | | | From | Joel Fernandes <> | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2018 21:24:00 -0700 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] Implement /proc/pid/kill |
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> wrote: > On 2018-10-31, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com> wrote: >> > I think Aleksa's larger point is that it's useful to treat processes >> > as other file-descriptor-named, poll-able, wait-able resources. >> > Consistency is important. A process is just another system resource, >> > and like any other system resource, you should be open to hold a file >> > descriptor to it and do things to that process via that file >> > descriptor. The precise form of this process-handle FD is up for >> > debate. The existing /proc/$PID directory FD is a good candidate for a >> > process handle FD, since it does almost all of what's needed. But >> > regardless of what form a process handle FD takes, we need it. I don't >> > see a case for continuing to treat processes in a non-unixy, >> > non-file-descriptor-based manner. >> >> That's what I'm proposing in the API for which I'm gathering feedback. >> I have presented parts of this in various discussions at LSS Europe last week >> and will be at LPC. >> We don't want to rush an API like this though. It was tried before in >> other forms >> and these proposals didn't make it. > > :+1: on a well thought-out and generic proposal. As we've discussed > elsewhere, this is an issue that really would be great to (finally) > solve.
Excited to see this and please count me in for discussions around this. thanks.
- Joel
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