This was added on Linux 5.1(3eb39f47934f9d5a3027fe00d906a45fe3a15fad)
as a way to avoid the race condition of using kill (where PID might be
reused by the kernel between between obtaining the pid and sending the
signal).
If the siginfo_t argument is NULL then pidfd_send_signal is equivalent
to kill. If it is not NULL pidfd_send_signal is equivalent to
rt_sigqueueinfo.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This was added on Linux 5.6 (8649c322f75c96e7ced2fec201e123b2b073bf09)
as a way to retrieve a file descriptors for another process though
pidfd (created either with CLONE_PIDFD or pidfd_getfd). The
functionality is similar to recvmmsg SCM_RIGHTS.
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
This was added on Linux 5.3 (32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df)
as a way to retrieve a pid file descriptors for process that has not
been created CLONE_PIDFD (by usual fork/clone).
Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
