Re: [PATCH] Add /proc/pid_generation

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2018-11-23 11:14:17, David Laight wrote:
> From: Kevin Easton
> > Sent: 22 November 2018 11:20
> > 
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 12:14:44PM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
> > > This change adds a per-pid-namespace 64-bit generation number,
> > > incremented on PID rollover, and exposes it via a new proc file
> > > /proc/pid_generation. By examining this file before and after /proc
> > > enumeration, user code can detect the potential reuse of a PID and
> > > restart the task enumeration process, repeating until it gets a
> > > coherent snapshot.
> > 
> > I see downthread this patch has been withdrawn, but nonetheless I'm
> > still curious - does this actually solve the problem?
> > 
> > It seems to me that a PID could be reused within a scan even if the
> > generation number remains the same at the beginning and end of a scan:
> 
> Why not allocate a 48bit generation number to each 16bit pid?
> Then you have a 64bit 'extended-pid' that can be assumed to never be reused.
> Provided enough interfaces are enhanced to support 'extended-pid' values
> you'll never get reused values.

For the record, I really like this proposal.

									Pavel
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