Rethinking race-free process signaling

Posted Apr 8, 2019 17:58 UTC (Mon) by perennialmind (guest, #45817)
In reply to: Rethinking race-free process signaling by neilbrown
Parent article: Rethinking race-free process signaling

So add a /proc/$pid/pid-generation symlink or file and some kind of alias to the current /proc/$pid like /proc/pid-gen/$pid-$gen? PID remains a unique candidate key, subject to a version check. Sounds sane to me. I don't have any particular need for 4 million processes running at once.