• [$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Wed Feb 25 06:40:08 2026
    The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of
    the pidfd API. A pidfd is a file
    descriptor that refers to a process; unlike a process ID, a pidfd is an unambiguous handle for a process; that makes it a safer, more deterministic
    way of operating on processes. Christian Brauner, who has driven much of
    the pidfd-related work, is proposing
    two new flags for the clone3()
    system call, one of which changes the kernel's security model in a
    somewhat controversial way.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1059673/
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