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Re: [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2018-11-19 13:09:45
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On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 09:42:35AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
Now here's the kicker: if the "running program" calls execve(), it
goes away.  The fd gets some sort of notification that this happened
Type error, parser failed.

Define "fd", please.  If it's a "file descriptor", thank you do playing,
you've lost.  That's not going to work.  If it's "opened file" (aka
"file description" in horrible POSIXese), who's going to get notifications
and what kind of exclusion are you going to use?
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