On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 11:28:47AM +0200, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
> >Hmm, then I fear I'm misunderstanding the patch.  I see it comparing
> >/proc/<pid>/exe to /proc/getpid()/exe to see if they are the same.
> >
> >How is that different from comparing pid to getpid()?
> 
> its comparing the name of the processes belong to the pids

Hmm, according to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procfs#Linux>
this actually compares the names of the original executable files.

But, still, that is a better test than comparing PIDs; thanks for the
pointer to the technique...

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