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		semi-extrinsic on Jan 29, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Systemd as tragedy If only there was a way for the system init program to identify and keep a list of processes it has spawned, you could imagine like a unique numerical Process ID, and then if there was a program that could check the Process Status, and another that could kill the process identified by this... PID with increasing levels of aggressiveness...

wbl on Jan 29, 2019 [–]

PIDs get reused so this doesn't work well.

MertsA on Jan 29, 2019 | [–]

He's sarcastically alluding to systemd's approach at solving this.

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