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A ptrace_syscall would be interesting and would seem to be a full replacement for having the pid argument everywhere. But frankly, I am not really seeing the v

• trumpdong 5mo ago
  The value is not needing to change every other syscall and not needing to write new ones with a pid argument (besides which, what when you want to change it to a pidfd argument? then you add pidfd_syscall instead of duplicating every syscall again)
  • uecker 5mo ago
    I meant the value of running syscalls in another process from the parent process in contrast to (v)forking and running them in the child directly.
    • trumpdong 5mo ago
      The value is starting the child with a clean slate instead of a copy of its parent.