From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       lgb@lgb.hu
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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:49:21 +0000
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On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:25 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Then this leaves the race if an old pid is reused in a newly created
> process before the last instances of that pid is cleaned up.

The PID won't be available to be re-used until the signal handler has
called waitpid() on it?

Ian.

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Ian Campbell
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