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Re:The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe by monocasa on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:46PM (#35267490)
pidfds solve some of those problems.
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Re:The Unix process API is unreliable and unsafe by cryptonector on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @05:47PM (#35267509)
Indeed, they do.

One can approximate pidfd in multi-processed programs on OSes that lack it, but that's about it. pidfd needs to be first-class.

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