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| author | Daniel Colascione | 2018-11-05 14:22:05 +0100 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet | 2018-11-20 17:50:00 +0100 |
| commit | c969eb830175f42b6cc0c8e80f6fce452fd75788 (patch) | |
| tree | 715766ff20b1b93fb88c8e4ca649ab3d415d870d /Documentation/early-userspace/README | |
| parent | Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups (diff) | |
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Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
State explicitly that holding a /proc/pid file descriptor open does
not reserve the PID. Also note that in the event of PID reuse, these
open file descriptors refer to the old, now-dead process, and not the
new one that happens to be named the same numeric PID.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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