[systemd-devel] [RFC PATCH] proc, pidns: Add highpid

[Eric W. Biederman]

Andy Lutomirski <luto at amacapital.net> writes:

> Pid reuse is common, which means that it's difficult or impossible
> to read information about a pid from /proc without races.

Sigh.

What we need are not race free pids, but a file descriptor based process
management api.  Possibly one that starts by handing you a proc
directory.

Which probably means that we need a proc file we can write to and send
signals to a process, and another proc file we can select on and wait
for the process to exit.

Making pids bigger just looks like bandaid.

Remember evovle things in the direction of an object capability system
things wind up being more maintainable.

Eric