Re: anyone ever implemented a reparent(pid) syscall?

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Chris Friesen wrote:
> Sure. So the monitorer starts up, attempts to watch a pid, gets an error
> saying that it doesn't exist, and handles it.

You'd still have a PID reuse race. Of course, you could also
cover this by checking the process' start time ...

But just designing the parent to be simple enough to be reliable
and/or generic enough that it doesn't even need to be upgraded
still looks like a more promising approach to me.

- Werner

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