* Lennart Poettering: > 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."
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