Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | | Subject | RE: Why wrapping PIDs is evil [was 32bit] | | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 16:29:00 -0800 |
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> "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> said: > > [...] > > > The point here is not that it's possible to do unsafe things but > > that it's impossible to do safe things. A person or program > > that wants to > > kill a particular process has, in principle, no way to do it > > without fear > > of killing innocent processes.
> Right. Iff you manage to wrap pids around in a jiffy, and you have the > right to kill the new process. Not exactly probable in the > current state of > things, is it.
The process may have been running for a long time. The PIDs may have already wrapped around.
> I agree with you (and Pavel) in an abstract sense, but this has absolutely > no practical impact AFAIKS.
I wouldn't go so far as to say "absolutely no practical impact", but I would say virtually no practical impact. :)
DS
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