Jim Jagielski wrote: > > So what's the word... should we back out all the pid table stuff > (from both 1.3 and 2.x) and wait for Joe to provide his > pgrp changes (including any required configure magic to detect > function existance) or what?
As you wrote... >If: > > 1. The required getpgid/getpgrp functions are available > on all current systems, and... > 2. it provides as much protection as the more... > "exacting"... check, then I doubt we will find process group tree portability across all of our posix-like OS's - and it does not provide protection against one of our children assigning a child-id scoreboard slot to a piped logger, the cgid process, etc. So I think we -don't- want the existing code to be backed out. Simplified, perhaps, but the basic logic is sound. And if the presence of getpgid/getpgrp functions lets us add a second sanity check; all the better! Bill
