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From: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
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	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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	Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2018 16:27:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181206222746.GB9224@mail.hallyn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5jL8PciZAXvOvCeCU3wKUEB_dU-O3q0tDw4uB_ojMvDEew@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 10:30:40AM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> 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()

imo, either procfd_send_signal() or taskfd_send_signal()

It seems to me that using flags later to specify sending to pgrp vs thread
is fine:  it's specifying how to interpret the 'fd' in 'procfd_send_signal()'.

> But, agreed, I think fdkill() should not be used.
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-06 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-06 12:18 [PATCH v4] signal: add taskfd_send_signal() syscall Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 12:30 ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 12:45   ` Jürg Billeter
2018-12-06 13:12     ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 13:18       ` Jürg Billeter
2018-12-06 13:20         ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 13:40       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 13:44         ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 14:27           ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-12-06 14:46           ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 12:53   ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 13:17     ` Florian Weimer
2018-12-06 15:01 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 16:17   ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-06 17:24     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 17:41       ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 18:30         ` Kees Cook
2018-12-06 22:27           ` Serge E. Hallyn [this message]
2018-12-06 17:14   ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 19:17     ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 19:30       ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 20:29         ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 20:37           ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-06 22:22             ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 22:43               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-06 21:31           ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 21:46             ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-12-06 22:01               ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-06 22:39               ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-06 23:17                 ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-07  0:31                   ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-12-07  0:34                     ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-07  0:59                       ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-12-07  1:39                         ` Daniel Colascione
2018-12-07  1:54                           ` Christian Brauner
2018-12-07 16:49                             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-12-07 16:47 ` Serge E. Hallyn
2018-12-08 21:46 ` kbuild test robot

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