Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:39:12 -0800 | From | Matthew Wilcox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior |
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On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:18:29AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > would ever rely on the pid being reused while having the descriptor > > open. How would that make sense? > > I agree this is corner space, but users might be surprised that > keeping FDs of /proc/pid/X would lead to PID space exhaustion, for > example.
We have a limit on the number of FDs a process can have open for a reason. Well, for many reasons.
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