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Process file descriptors (pidfds) were introduced to provide a stable
handle on a process. They solve the problem of pid recycling.
For a detailed explanation, see https://lwn.net/Articles/801319/ and
http://www.corsix.org/content/what-is-a-pidfd
Before Linux 6.9, anonymous inodes were used for the implementation of
pidfds. So, we detect them in a fashion similiar to other fd types that
use anonymous inodes by calling `readlink()`.
After 6.9, pidfs (a file system for pidfds) was introduced.
In 6.9 `S_ISREG()` returned true for pidfds, but this again changed with
6.10.
(https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/pidfs.c?h=v6.11-rc2#n285)
After this change, pidfs inodes have no file type in st_mode in
userspace.
We use `PID_FS_MAGIC` to detect pidfds for kernel >= 6.9
Hence, check for pidfds occurs before the check for regular files.
For pidfds that refer to dead processes, we lose the pid of the process
as the Pid and NSpid fields in /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<pidfd> change to -1.
So, we create a temporary process for each unique inode and open pidfds
that refer to this process. After all pidfds have been opened we kill
this temporary process.
This commit does not include support for pidfds that point to a specific
thread, i.e pidfds opened with `PIDFD_THREAD` flag.
Fixes: #2258
Signed-off-by: Bhavik Sachdev <[email protected]>
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