linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] pid: add pidctl()

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Date:   Tue, 26 Mar 2019 14:47:47 -0400
From:   Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] pid: add pidctl()

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 07:19:30PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
[snip]
> > > > I am actually supportive of Daniel's view that by combining too many
> > > > arguments into a single syscall, becomes confusing and sometimes some
> > > > arguments have to be forced to 0 in the single shoe-horned syscall. Like you
> > > 
> > > There's a difference between an ioctl() and say seccomp() which this is
> > > close to:
> > > int seccomp(unsigned int operation, unsigned int flags, void *args);
> > > The point is that the functionality is closely related not just randomly
> > > unrelated stuff. But as I said I'm more than willing to compromise.
> > 
> > Sounds great, yeah whatever makes sense.
> 
> In case I haven't said this enough: I really appreciate the discussion
> and in general the help on this. That probably sometimes gets lost in
> mails sometimes. :)

I appreciate you saying that and thanks for the work on this :)

 - Joel