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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 10:30:40 -0800
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On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 9:41 AM Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> wrote:
> I feel changing the name around by a single persons preferences is not
> really a nice thing to do community-wise. So I'd like to hear other
> people chime in first before I make that change.

I don't think the name is hugely critical (but it's always the hardest
to settle on). My preference order would be:

taskfd_send_signal()
pidfd_send_signal()
procfd_send_signal()
fd_send_signal()

But, agreed, I think fdkill() should not be used.

-- 
Kees Cook