mirror of https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: anyone ever implemented a reparent(pid) syscall?
Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 04:33:43 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030512043343.A1861@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EBF1398.9090704@nortelnetworks.com>; from cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com on Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:23:04PM -0400

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

-- 
  _________________________________________________________________________
 / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina         wa@almesberger.net /
/_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-12  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-09 18:54 Chris Friesen
2003-05-10  9:39 ` Werner Almesberger
2003-05-12  3:23   ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-12  7:33     ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
2003-05-12 14:03       ` Chris Friesen

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20030512043343.A1861@almesberger.net \
    --to=wa@almesberger.net \
    --cc=cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox

all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®