Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030358AbVLOD62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030383AbVLOD62 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:28 -0500 Received: from smtpout.mac.com ([17.250.248.84]:33494 "EHLO smtpout.mac.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030358AbVLOD61 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: References: <20051129002801.GA9785@mipter.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20051129013354.GA17749@mipter.zuzino.mipt.ru> <20051129054819.GR11266@alpha.home.local> <20051130102111.GK9949@vanheusden.com> <20051130212350.GV11266@alpha.home.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Cc: Willy Tarreau , Folkert van Heusden , Alexey Dobriyan , Chris Boot , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Kyle Moffett Subject: Re: [RFC] un petite hack: /proc/*/ctl Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:58:06 -0500 To: Jan Engelhardt X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1160 Lines: 30 On Dec 09, 2005, at 09:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> not at all. It's just that patches on the list take more and more >> time to check, we're around something like 1 patch for 5 mails. >> And when the author himself suggests that the patch is not for >> inclusion, it wastes time. However, I agree that Alexey announced >> it as [RFC] and not [PATCH], > > Such things should be tagged as [OT] then, they are not worth > enough to be named [RFC]. Just thinking about this a bit more, this does have some practical value. This would allow a process to acquire a "PID handle", such that it could later reliably send a signal to this process without worrying about any of the traditional PID reuse issues. This would also solve some of the problems of the process checkpointing people. Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible -- Alan Kay - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/