On Tue, 11.07.17 21:26, Florian Weimer (f...@deneb.enyo.de) wrote: > * Lennart Poettering: > > > Apparently, this regressed between this version and > > glibc-2.24-9.fc25.x86_64 hence. > > Yes, I backported the fork cache removal to Fedora 25. There is no > longer a good way to main such a cache in userspace because glibc > cannot intercept anymore all the ways that can change the PID of the > current process because the kernel interfaces for process management > are incredibly rich these days.
BTW, with this change you are breaking expressly documented behaviour: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getpid.2.html "Since glibc version 2.3.4, the glibc wrapper function for getpid() caches PIDs, so as to avoid additional system calls when a process calls getpid() repeatedly." Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
