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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 3/4] signal: support CLONE_PIDFD with pidfd_send_signal
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:01:06 +0200
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On 04/16, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> @@ -3581,12 +3588,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(pidfd_send_signal, int, pidfd, int, sig,
>  	if (flags)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>
> -	f = fdget_raw(pidfd);
> +	f = fdget(pidfd);

could you explain this change?

I am just curious, I don't understand why should we disallow O_PATH and how
this connects to this patch.

Oleg.