From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2024 15:06:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240208140610.GE19801@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240208-fragt-prospekt-7866333b15f0@brauner>
On 02/08, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> I would also suggest we update the obsolete comment on top of
> pidfd_send_signal() along the lines of:
Yes, but...
> + * If the @pidfd refers to a thread-group leader the signal is thread-group
> + * directed. If @pidfd referes to a thread then the signal is thread directed.
No, this depends on PIDFD_THREAD only.
If it is set then the signal is always "thread directed" even if @pidfd refers
to a thread-group leader.
Otherwise the target task must be a group leader and the signal will be
"thread-group directed".
Right?
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-08 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-07 11:45 [PATCH] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-08 13:15 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-08 13:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-08 14:31 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-08 14:34 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-08 15:33 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-08 16:11 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 10:28 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 11:29 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-08 14:06 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2024-02-08 14:33 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-08 15:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2024-02-08 15:57 ` Oleg Nesterov
2024-02-09 9:26 ` Christian Brauner
2024-02-09 10:53 ` Oleg Nesterov
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