On 05/09, Pedro Alves wrote: > > On 05/09/2012 04:09 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > probably not that big of a deal, but the reason i like using > > ptrace(PTRACE_KILL) over a raw kill() is that you are less likely to kill the > > wrong process by accident. maybe not that big of a deal in practice though. > > > And you can do tgkill instead. It was specifically invented to handle the > reuse case. tgkill() can kill the wrong process/thread too, although it lessens the risk. But I don't really understand the problem. The traced thread can't go away until the tracer does wait/detach, and thus its pid can't be reused? May be, "by accident" above means something else, not pid reuse... Oleg. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
