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On 64-bit platforms, userspace can read the pidfd's inode in order to get a never-repeated PID identifier. On 32-bit platforms this identifier is not exposed, as inodes are limited to 32 bits. Instead expose the identifier via export_fh, which makes it available to userspace via name_to_handle_at. In addition we implement fh_to_dentry, which allows userspace to recover a pidfd from a pidfs file handle. Signed-off-by: Erin Shepherd <erin.shepherd@e43.eu> [brauner: patch heavily rewritten] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241129-work-pidfs-file_handle-v1-6-87d803a42495@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Co-Developed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.