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Re: sysctl_doeproc() race



On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 07:00:46PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> That process can exit, its zombie be cleaned up, and then a new process
> created which happens to have the same pid as the previous one had

Theoretically, but for all practical cases (and give the way we assign
pids) this sounds extremely unlikely and just should be ignored - unless
there is a bug involved, and that is what I'd like to understand.

Martin


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