On 11.03.2018 13:12, Martin Husemann wrote: > 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 > I've started this case as a bug detectable for every 30,000th execution of the same ATF test. If this reordering makes braking a user-space program less possible, but still theoretical and observable sometimes - I prefer to fix it forever. Anyway I will try this out and run tests whether the bug can be still observed.
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