Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Why wrapping PIDs is evil [was 32bit] | Date | Sun, 16 Jan 2000 19:41:00 -0300 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> said:
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> 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.
I agree with you (and Pavel) in an abstract sense, but this has absolutely no practical impact AFAIKS. -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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