Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 12 May 2003 04:33:43 -0300 | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: anyone ever implemented a reparent(pid) syscall? |
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Chris Friesen wrote: > Sure. So the monitorer starts up, attempts to watch a pid, gets an error > saying that it doesn't exist, and handles it.
You'd still have a PID reuse race. Of course, you could also cover this by checking the process' start time ...
But just designing the parent to be simple enough to be reliable and/or generic enough that it doesn't even need to be upgraded still looks like a more promising approach to me.
- Werner
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