Subj : [$] As ye clone(), so shall ye AUTOREAP
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Feb 25 2026 06:40:09

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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