Re: Proposal: killpeer(2)

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:58:28AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> 
> How about adding fcntl(F_GETPEER) returning pid_t, then you can do
> kill(fcntl(fd, F_GETPEER))?

There's still a race -- if your process sleeps between the fcntl
and the kill system calls, you can kill the wrong process or nothing.

Thor