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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Jürg Billeter" <j@bitron.ch>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Oleg Nesterov" <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Michael Kerrisk" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	"Filipe Brandenburger" <filbranden@google.com>,
	"David Wilcox" <davidvsthegiant@gmail.com>,
	hansecke@gmail.com,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_PDEATHSIG_PROC
Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:32:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgks7z0p.fsf@xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFwnx9rY435UT4qiYMWyL++DL2tVaeph-syrkVUrUCW=Xg@mail.gmail.com> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Tue, 3 Oct 2017 13:02:00 -0700")

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 12:30 PM, Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>>
>> We never signal the orignal parent.  We signal the child that
>> requested the pdeath_signal when the original parent dies.
>
> Yeah, I keep making that mistake, because I always confuse this with
> the exit_signal handling.
>
> Just mentally kick me next time I do that: "Christ, Linus, not
> *again*! Take your damn meds"
>
> Anyway, it's more the "another confusing and fragile special case that
> will probably not be used very widely and cause confusion because it
> lacks any test coverage" thing I worry about most.

Agreed.  That makes a more general solution perferable.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-03 20:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-09  9:40 [PATCH] prctl: add PR_[GS]ET_PDEATHSIG_PROC Jürg Billeter
2017-09-12 17:05 ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-12 18:54   ` Jürg Billeter
2017-09-13 17:11     ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-13 17:26       ` Jürg Billeter
2017-09-13 17:48         ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-29 12:30 ` [RESEND PATCH] " Jürg Billeter
2017-10-02 23:20   ` Andrew Morton
2017-10-03  3:25     ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-03  6:45       ` Jürg Billeter
2017-10-03 14:46         ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-03 16:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-03 16:36             ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-03 17:02               ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-03 19:30                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-03 20:02                   ` Linus Torvalds
2017-10-03 20:32                     ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2017-10-03 17:00           ` Jürg Billeter
2017-10-03 17:40             ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-03 17:47               ` Jürg Billeter
2017-10-03 19:05                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2017-10-05 16:27             ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-10-08 17:47               ` Jürg Billeter
2017-10-09 16:32                 ` Eric W. Biederman

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