Re: ptrace.2: PTRACE_KILL needs a stopped process too

[Pedro Alves]

On 05/09/2012 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> probably not that big of a deal, but the reason i like using 
> ptrace(PTRACE_KILL) over a raw kill() is that you are less likely to kill the 
> wrong process by accident.  maybe not that big of a deal in practice though.


And you can do tgkill instead.  It was specifically invented to handle the
reuse case.

-- 
Pedro Alves
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