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From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 10:04:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <34c493c3-993f-39f1-3afc-7f59d5113a30@metux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKOZuetkF4zPm-oKMjnoJtvUi4iTnY-ORzPd-JpfpseMXY4yhw@mail.gmail.com>

On 19.04.19 23:24, Daniel Colascione wrote:

Hi folks,

<big_snip>

I haven't followed the whole thread, so forgive me if I'm going to
write something dumb here ... but: this all feels a bit complicated
to me.

Why not just making the pidfd present a stream of events (which are
encoded as text lines) ? It would behave just like any stream, eg.
socket, chardev, ...

An `cat` on a pidfd could look like this:

<timestamp> EXIT <exitcode>
<timestamp> EXEC <cmdline>
<timestamp> SIGNAL <sigid>
...

IOW: just using POLLIN. Let the listener just read all events and
decide which ones he's actually acting on.

In the other direction we could write in commands, eg. for sending
signals.


--mtx

-- 
Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
Free software and Linux embedded engineering
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-24  8:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-11 17:50 [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-04-11 17:50 ` [PATCH RFC 2/2] Add selftests for pidfd polling Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-04-12 14:51   ` Tycho Andersen
2019-04-11 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd Joel Fernandes
2019-04-11 20:02   ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-11 20:20     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-12 21:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-04-13  0:09   ` Joel Fernandes
     [not found]     ` <CAKOZuetX4jMPDtDqAvGgSNo4BHf9BOnu79ufEiULfM5X5nDyyQ@mail.gmail.com>
2019-04-13  0:56       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-14 18:19   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-16 12:04 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-16 12:43   ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-16 19:20   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-16 19:32     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-17 13:09     ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-18 17:23       ` Jann Horn
2019-04-18 17:26         ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-18 17:53           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 19:02           ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 19:18             ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 19:22               ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 19:42                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 19:49               ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 20:01                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 21:13                   ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 20:34                 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 20:57                   ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 21:20                     ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 21:24                       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 21:45                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 22:08                           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 22:17                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 22:37                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-24  8:04                         ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult [this message]
2019-04-19 21:59                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-20 11:51                         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-20 12:26                           ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-20 12:35                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 23:11                       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-19 23:20                         ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 23:32                           ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-19 23:36                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-20  0:46                         ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-19 21:21                     ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 21:48                       ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 22:02                         ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 22:46                           ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 23:12                             ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 23:46                               ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-20  0:17                                 ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-24  9:05                                   ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-24  9:03                                 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-19 22:35                         ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-19 23:02                           ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-19 23:29                             ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-20  0:02                               ` Christian Brauner
2019-04-24  9:17                               ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-24  9:11                             ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-24  8:56                         ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-24  8:20                       ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-04-19 15:43         ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-04-19 18:12       ` Joel Fernandes
2019-04-18 18:44     ` Jonathan Kowalski
2019-04-18 18:57       ` Daniel Colascione
2019-04-18 19:14         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-04-19 19:05           ` Joel Fernandes

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