"David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> said:
[...]
> 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.
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