Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] pidfd: change pidfd_send_signal() to respect PIDFD_THREAD

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 10:58:15 EST


On 02/09, Christian Brauner wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 04:43:05PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > So the question: do you think we also want PIDFD_SIGNAL_SESSION_GROUP?
>
> Thought about this as well and my feeling is to wait until someone asks
> for it. Right now, we have a reason to add PIDFD_SIGNAL_PROCESS_GROUP
> because of Andy's use-case. If someone has a use-case for session groups
> then yes. Otherwise I'd just not bother?

OK, agreed.

and I forgot to mention, if you want to add PIDFD_SIGNAL_PRGP you can
look at __kill_pgrp_info().

Oleg.