On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 06:13:48PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > How about adding fcntl(F_GETPEER) returning pid_t, then you can do > > > kill(fcntl(fd, F_GETPEER))? > > > > There's still a race -- if your process sleeps between the fcntl > > and the kill system calls, you can kill the wrong process or nothing. > > How is that different from pkill usage or pretty much any other case not > involving a directly related process?
It's not; the point is to fix that race. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
