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point that out explicitly and clearly in the associated patches and Cc
`Christian Brauner <brauner (at) kernel (dot) org`.**

### xattrs for pidfd

Since pidfds have been moved to a separate pidfs filesystem it is easy
to add support for xattrs on pidfds. That could be valuable to store
meta information along the pidfd. Storing an xattr should probably make
the pidfd automatically persistent, i.e., the reference for the dentry
is only put once the task is reaped.

**Use-Case:** Store meta information alongside pidfds.

### inotify() events for BSD file locks

BSD file locks (i.e. `flock()`, as opposed to POSIX `F_SETLK` and
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