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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-16 09:28:19 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-16 09:28:19 -0700
commitc17112a5c413f20188da276c138484e7127cdc84 (patch)
tree9fb0607a64e4dd49bbf405ed456221640fa972d8 /include/uapi/linux
parentLinux 5.3 (diff)
parentwaitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group (diff)
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Merge tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd/waitid updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains two features and various tests. First, it adds support for waiting on process through pidfds by adding the P_PIDFD type to the waitid() syscall. This completes the basic functionality of the pidfd api (cf. [1]). In the meantime we also have a new adition to the userspace projects that make use of the pidfd api. The qt project was nice enough to send a mail pointing out that they have a pr up to switch to the pidfd api (cf. [2]). Second, this tag contains an extension to the waitid() syscall to make it possible to wait on the current process group in a race free manner (even though the actual problem is very unlikely) by specifing 0 together with the P_PGID type. This extension traces back to a discussion on the glibc development mailing list. There are also a range of tests for the features above. Additionally, the test-suite which detected the pidfd-polling race we fixed in [3] is included in this tag" [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/794707/ [2] https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/108456 [3] commit b191d6491be6 ("pidfd: fix a poll race when setting exit_state") * tag 'core-process-v5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: waitid: Add support for waiting for the current process group tests: add pidfd poll tests tests: move common definitions and functions into pidfd.h pidfd: add pidfd_wait tests pidfd: add P_PIDFD to waitid()
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/wait.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
index ac49a220cf2a..85b809fc9f11 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/wait.h
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
#define P_ALL 0
#define P_PID 1
#define P_PGID 2
+#define P_PIDFD 3
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_WAIT_H */