Re: [RFC] un petite hack: /proc/*/ctl

[Kyle Moffett]

On Dec 09, 2005, at 09:24, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > not at all. It's just that patches on the list take more and more  
> > time to check, we're around something like 1 patch for 5 mails.  
> > And when the author himself suggests that the patch is not for  
> > inclusion, it wastes time. However, I agree that Alexey announced  
> > it as [RFC] and not [PATCH],
>
> Such things should be tagged as [OT] then, they are not worth  
> enough to be named [RFC].

Just thinking about this a bit more, this does have some practical  
value.  This would allow a process to acquire a "PID handle", such  
that it could later reliably send a signal to this process without  
worrying about any of the traditional PID reuse issues.  This would  
also solve some of the problems of the process checkpointing people.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

--
Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible
  -- Alan Kay



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