On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 04:33:53AM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > On 2018-10-31, Joel Fernandes <j...@joelfernandes.org> wrote: > > I suggest to maintainers we take this in as an intermediate solution > > since we don't have anything close to it and this is a real issue, and > > the fix proposed is simple. > > I would suggest we wait until after LPC to see what Christian's design > is (given that, from what I've heard, it will help us solve more > problems than just the kill(2) issue). > > I am very skeptical of adding new procfs files as an "intermediate > solution" (procfs is the most obvious example of an interface which is > effectively written in stone). Especially if this would conflict with > the idea Christian will propose -- as he said, there were proposals to > do this in the past and they didn't get anywhere because of lack of > discussion and brainstorming before posting patches. >
Fine with me, thanks.
