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Re:Ghosts of Unix past, part 3: Unfixable designs (2010) by zxzax on Monday May 17, 2021 @01:12PM (#27185734)
The problem was discussed quite a lot around the introduction of pidfds:

https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/

https://lwn.net/Articles/784831/

In essence it's a classic TOCTTOU.

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