On Wednesday 09 May 2012 16:12:19 Oleg Nesterov wrote: > 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? or the process has received a SIGKILL for some reason > May be, "by accident" above means something else, not pid reuse... i like to assume that my code isn't going to be bug free, so the more mechanisms i have in place to protect innocent bystanders the better :) -mike
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