Re: Proposal: killpeer(2)

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:13:48PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger 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.
 > 
 > How is that different from pkill usage or pretty much any other case not
 > involving a directly related process?

It's not; the point is to fix that race.

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David A. Holland
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