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From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acahalan@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] ps command race fix
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2006 12:12:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060813121222.8210ccc2.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1zme8v4u9.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

Eric wrote:
> Actually except when we can't find the process we were just at
> the current code doesn't miss any newly added processes. 

Random thought -- could we have file descriptors open on /proc put some
sort of 'hold' on whatever /proc entry they were just at, so it doesn't
disappear out from under them, even if that process has otherwise fully
exited?

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-13 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-14 11:39 [RFC] ps command race fix KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  1:48   ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-25  2:00     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:08     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  2:33       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:50         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  3:16           ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-13 16:29             ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 17:34               ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-13 19:00                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 19:12                   ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2006-08-16  1:23                     ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-17  4:59                       ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17  6:32                         ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-17 13:39                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-17 18:16                             ` Jean Delvare
2006-08-18  0:21                             ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-08-18  3:53                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-08-13 20:08               ` Albert Cahalan
2006-08-16  2:20                 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-07-25  7:22         ` Paul Jackson
2006-07-25  1:53   ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  2:06     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-25  2:34       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-07-25  6:09   ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-07-25  6:47 Albert Cahalan

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