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megous
on Aug 3, 2019
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Killing a process and all of its descendants
Not anymore: b53b0b9d9a613c418057f6cb921c2f40a6f78c24 (pidfd: add polling support)
dataflow
on Aug 3, 2019
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Wow, finally! Committed just 3 months ago. Might be able to finally rely on it in Linux distros a few years from now!
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/b53b0b9d9a613c41805...
pas
on Aug 3, 2019
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It's in kernel v5.3, which is expected in September, so it might be in Ubuntu Eoan Ermine 19.10. (After all 5.0 got released in March and Ubuntu 19.04 ships with 5.0.)
dataflow
on Aug 3, 2019
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Yeah, that's when you'll just start seeing the new kernel in the wild. Not when you'll stop seeing older kernels in the wild.
pas
on Aug 4, 2019
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There will be RHEL6 installs for the next 10 years, but why do they matter exactly?
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