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Date:   Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:24:15 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
To:     John Cotton Ericson <mail@JohnEricson.me>
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Subject: Re: Leveraging pidfs for process creation without fork
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 12:37:57PM -0400, John Cotton Ericson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was excited to learn about about pidfds the other day, precisely in hopes
> that it would open the door to such a "sane process creation API". I
> searched the LKML, found this thread, and now hope to rekindle the
> discussion; my apologies if there has been more discussion since that I

Yeah, I haven't forgotten this discussion. A proposal is on my todo list
for this year. So far I've scheduled some time to work on this in the
fall.

Thanks!
Christian