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| author | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2022-01-28 15:27:40 -0300 |
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| committer | Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> | 2022-05-17 10:32:28 -0300 |
| commit | 97f5d19c45799e3abedef771430b5562f1b8764f (patch) | |
| tree | 9a7bad9c00dc71e570da10ff89bfccaf3bc09ea0 /NEWS | |
| parent | 1da064c015dce624cb19fcdc0bace7af2bd8caec (diff) | |
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linux: Add pidfd_open
This was added on Linux 5.3 (32fcb426ec001cb6d5a4a195091a8486ea77e2df) as a way to retrieve a pid file descriptors for process that has not been created CLONE_PIDFD (by usual fork/clone). Reviewed-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> Tested-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ebde949d58..966c696bb0 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ Major new features: -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR. +* On Linux, the pidfd_open function has been added. The pidfd functionality + provides access to a process while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on + tranditional Unix systems. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes |