Re: OT: fork(): parent or child should run first?

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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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