# Re: \[PATCH v2 0/5\] pid: add pidfd\_open()

- From: Daniel Colascione \<hidden\>
- Date: 2019-03-30 16:11:37 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2019/03/5555626
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2019/03/5554749/t.md

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 9:09 AM Linus Torvalds
[ref] wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 8:54 AM Christian Brauner [ref] wrote:
> >
> > /* Introduction */
> > This adds the pidfd_open() syscall.
> > pidfd_open() allows to retrieve file descriptors for a given pid. This
> > includes both file descriptors for processes and file descriptors for
> > threads.
>
> I'm ok with the pidfd_open() call to just get a pidfd, but that
> "pidfd_to_profs()" needs to go away.
>
> If you want to open the /proc/<pid>/status file, then just do that.
> This whole "do one and convert to the other" needs to die. No, no, no.

How do you propose that someone open the /proc/<pid>/status file in a
race-free manner starting with the result of calling pidfd_open?
```