Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH v3] Implement /proc/pid/kill | Date | Thu, 1 Nov 2018 11:33:29 +0000 |
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From: Daniel Colascione > Sent: 31 October 2018 19:33 ... > You can't do it today with kill. The idea that keeping a open file > descriptor to a /proc/pid or a file within it prevents PID reuse is > widespread, but incorrect.
Is there a real good reason why that shouldn't be the case? ie Holding a reference on the 'struct pid' being enough to stop reuse.
A patch to do that would be more generally useful.
David
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