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From: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
To: John Cotton Ericson <mail@JohnEricson.me>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>,
	Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>,
	Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>,
	Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: Leveraging pidfs for process creation without fork
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:24:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210729142415.qovpzky537zkg3dp@wittgenstein> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f8457e20-c3cc-6e56-96a4-3090d7da0cb6@JohnEricson.me>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:37:57PM -0400, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was excited to learn about about pidfds the other day, precisely in hopes
> that it would open the door to such a "sane process creation API". I
> searched the LKML, found this thread, and now hope to rekindle the
> discussion; my apologies if there has been more discussion since that I

Yeah, I haven't forgotten this discussion. A proposal is on my todo list
for this year. So far I've scheduled some time to work on this in the
fall.

Thanks!
Christian

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-29 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-01 17:47 forkat(int pidfd), execveat(int pidfd), other awful things? Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-02-01 17:51 ` Jason A. Donenfeld
2021-02-01 18:20 ` Christian Brauner
2021-02-01 18:29 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-02-02  9:23   ` David Laight
2021-07-28 16:37     ` Leveraging pidfs for process creation without fork John Cotton Ericson
2021-07-29 14:24       ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2021-07-29 14:54         ` John Ericson
2021-07-30  1:41         ` Al Viro
     [not found]           ` <1468d75c-57ae-42aa-85ce-2bee8d403763@www.fastmail.com>
2021-07-31 22:42             ` Al Viro
2021-08-02 12:19               ` Christian Brauner
2021-08-03  6:00                 ` John Cotton Ericson
2021-02-01 18:32 ` forkat(int pidfd), execveat(int pidfd), other awful things? Casey Schaufler

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