nc 0.9.7

Access system calls directly
Documentation
/// Obtain a file descriptor that refers to a process.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// const STDOUT_FD: i32 = 1;
///
/// let pid = unsafe { nc::fork() };
/// assert!(pid.is_ok());
/// let pid = pid.unwrap();
///
/// if pid == 0 {
///     println!("In child process, pid: {}", unsafe { nc::getpid() });
///     let path = "/tmp/nc-pidfdopen";
///     let fd = unsafe {
///         nc::openat(
///             nc::AT_FDCWD,
///             path,
///             nc::O_CREAT | nc::O_WRONLY | nc::O_TRUNC,
///             0o644,
///         )
///     };
///     assert!(fd.is_ok());
///     let fd = fd.unwrap();
///     let ret = unsafe { nc::dup3(fd, STDOUT_FD, 0) };
///     assert!(ret.is_ok());
///
///     let t = nc::timespec_t {
///         tv_sec: 2,
///         tv_nsec: 0,
///     };
///     let ret = unsafe { nc::nanosleep(&t, None) };
///     assert!(ret.is_ok());
///     let ret = unsafe { nc::close(fd) };
///     assert!(ret.is_ok());
///     let ret = unsafe { nc::unlinkat(nc::AT_FDCWD, path, 0) };
///     assert!(ret.is_ok());
///     unsafe { nc::exit(0) };
/// }
///
/// let t = nc::timespec_t {
///     tv_sec: 2,
///     tv_nsec: 0,
/// };
/// let ret = unsafe { nc::nanosleep(&t, None) };
/// assert!(ret.is_ok());
///
/// let pidfd = unsafe { nc::pidfd_open(pid, 0) };
/// if pidfd == Err(nc::errno::ENOSYS) {
///     eprintln!("PIDFD_OPEN syscall not supported in this system");
///     return;
/// }
/// let pidfd = pidfd.unwrap();
///
/// let child_stdout_fd = unsafe { nc::pidfd_getfd(pidfd, STDOUT_FD, 0) };
/// if child_stdout_fd == Err(nc::errno::ENOSYS) {
///     eprintln!("PIDFD_OPEN syscall not supported in this system");
///     return;
/// }
/// let child_stdout_fd = child_stdout_fd.unwrap();
/// let msg = b"Hello, msg from parent process\n";
/// let ret = unsafe { nc::write(child_stdout_fd, msg) };
/// assert!(ret.is_ok());
/// let nwrite = ret.unwrap();
/// assert_eq!(nwrite as usize, msg.len());
///
/// let ret = unsafe { nc::close(pidfd) };
/// assert!(ret.is_ok());
/// let ret = unsafe { nc::close(child_stdout_fd) };
/// assert!(ret.is_ok());
/// ```
pub unsafe fn pidfd_open(pid: pid_t, flags: u32) -> Result<i32, Errno> {
    let pid = pid as usize;
    let flags = flags as usize;
    syscall2(SYS_PIDFD_OPEN, pid, flags).map(|ret| ret as i32)
}