Rethinking race-free process signaling
Rethinking race-free process signaling
Posted Apr 4, 2019 22:57 UTC (Thu) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Rethinking race-free process signaling by mathstuf
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No, they read the sysctl setting. They probably can be broken if it changes when the program is launched, but nobody really does that.
I'm not saying that such a design is a good idea, it's just that I've seen it used.