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From: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net>
To: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 1/2] Add polling support to pidfd
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2019 11:11:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c833c78b-445d-93d9-e59f-6bc62376c111@metux.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHrFyr6FntUgsCRw2b1B9+pjLQ2+pJMTULywRC1woNW4PvtyiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 20.04.19 01:02, Christian Brauner wrote:

> I'm sorry, who has agreed that a non-parent should be able to wait for
> process death?
> I know you proposed that but has anyone ever substantially supported this?

I actually support this.

One practical usecase I have in mind for some upcoming projects is
monitoring processes in a container from the outside.


--mtx

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-04-24  9:12 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
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 [this message]
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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