Re: [RFC][PATCH] Add prctl to set sibling thread names

[Andi Kleen]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 05:42:15PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 02:28 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:21:37PM -0700, john stultz wrote:
> > > 
> > > Taking a very raw attempt at this, I scratched out the following simple
> > > implementation. I'd appreciate any review or suggestions for
> > > improvements. I'm not at all certain the passing of the thread pid_t
> > > through the unsigned long is valid, for instance, or if
> > > same_thread_group() is the right check to make sure we only change
> > > siblings and not tid from other processes. So any advice on better
> > > approaches would be great.
> > 
> > First though that comes to mind is that this should not be in prctl()
> 
> So it deserves a new syscall? Any other thoughts?

I would probably just put it into /proc/pid and use the normal ptrace
access checks.
-Andi

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