Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Colascione <> | Date | Sun, 18 Nov 2018 12:21:31 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors |
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 12:15 PM, Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> wrote: >> That is, I'm proposing an API that looks like this: >> >> int process_kill(int procfs_dfd, int signo, const union sigval value) > > I've started a second tree with process_signal(int procpid_dfd, int sig)
Thanks.
> instead of an ioctl(). Why do you want sigval too?
API completeness. The sigqueue interface is a superset of kill, and I don't want process_kill to do less than any PID-based kill. Maybe taking a siginfo_t, like rt_sigqueueinfo does, would be even better in that respect, come to think of it.
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