>> Perhaps it would need a new flavour of file descriptor, [...]
> Linux has apparently done this: pidfd (file descriptors representing
> a process). The idea is that you can pass them to various system
> call variants that otherwise take pids, without the risk that the
> process has exited in
On Sat 15 Aug 2020 at 16:46:13 -0400, Mouse wrote:
> Personally, I don't like it; I think signals should be much like
> hardware interrupts in that a second instance happening before the
> first is serviced gets silently merged. If you want some sort of
> queued notification of child death, it
