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Re:Killing a process and all of its descendants by megous on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:40AM (#20599701)
Not anymore: b53b0b9d9a613c418057f6cb921c2f40a6f78c24 (pidfd: add polling support)
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Re:Killing a process and all of its descendants by mehrdadn on Saturday August 03, 2019 @06:45AM (#20599723)
Wow, finally! Committed just 3 months ago. Might be able to finally rely on it in Linux distros a few years from now!

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b53b0b9d9a613c41805...

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Re:Killing a process and all of its descendants by pas on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:27AM (#20600289)
It's in kernel v5.3, which is expected in September, so it might be in Ubuntu Eoan Ermine 19.10. (After all 5.0 got released in March and Ubuntu 19.04 ships with 5.0.)
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Re:Killing a process and all of its descendants by mehrdadn on Saturday August 03, 2019 @03:17PM (#20602083)
Yeah, that's when you'll just start seeing the new kernel in the wild. Not when you'll stop seeing older kernels in the wild.
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Re:Killing a process and all of its descendants by pas on Sunday August 04, 2019 @07:45AM (#20605893)
There will be RHEL6 installs for the next 10 years, but why do they matter exactly?
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