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whishlist: mark "API to determine the parent process ID of a pidfd" as done
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
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### API to determine the parent process ID of a pidfd
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[x] API to determine the parent process ID of a pidfd
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An API to determine the parent process ID (ppid) of a pidfd would be
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good.
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would fail. It would be very useful if this could be determined
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easily before even calling that syscall.
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**🙇 `cdda1f26e74b ("pidfd: add ioctl to retrieve pid info")` 🙇**
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**Usecase:** systemd manages a multitude of processes, most of which
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are its own children, but many which are not. It would be great if
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we could easily determine whether it is worth waiting for

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