linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] pidfd: allow pidfd_open() on non-thread-group leaders

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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 02:25:30 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Tycho Andersen <tandersen@...flix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] pidfd: allow pidfd_open() on non-thread-group
 leaders

On 01/23, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> But to be honest I can't understand test_non_tgl_poll_exit() at all. I don't
> even understand why the process/thread created by fork_task_with_thread()
> should ever exit. And why it creates the "writer" child... Never mind, too
> late for me to read the code.

Ah, OK, it passes thread_wait_exit to fork_task_with_thread(), and this "fn"
reads sk_pair and does exit() which is actually exit_group().

Oleg.