Re: [RFC PATCH] Implement /proc/pid/kill

[Joel Fernandes]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 09:24:00PM -0700, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 7:56 PM, Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2018-10-31, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > I think Aleksa's larger point is that it's useful to treat processes
> >> > as other file-descriptor-named, poll-able, wait-able resources.
> >> > Consistency is important. A process is just another system resource,
> >> > and like any other system resource, you should be open to hold a file
> >> > descriptor to it and do things to that process via that file
> >> > descriptor. The precise form of this process-handle FD is up for
> >> > debate. The existing /proc/$PID directory FD is a good candidate for a
> >> > process handle FD, since it does almost all of what's needed. But
> >> > regardless of what form a process handle FD takes, we need it. I don't
> >> > see a case for continuing to treat processes in a non-unixy,
> >> > non-file-descriptor-based manner.
> >>
> >> That's what I'm proposing in the API for which I'm gathering feedback.
> >> I have presented parts of this in various discussions at LSS Europe last week
> >> and will be at LPC.
> >> We don't want to rush an API like this though. It was tried before in
> >> other forms
> >> and these proposals didn't make it.
> >
> > :+1: on a well thought-out and generic proposal. As we've discussed
> > elsewhere, this is an issue that really would be great to (finally)
> > solve.
> 
> Excited to see this and please count me in for discussions around this. thanks.
> 

Just a quick question, is there a track planned at LPC for discussing this
new proposal or topics around/related to the proposal?

If not, should that be planned?

- Joel