Message 355917 - Python tracker

Message355917

Author	vstinner
Recipients	giampaolo.rodola, vstinner
Date	2019-11-04.01:27:22
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> -1 about the PR solution to suppress ProcessLookupError in case the process is gone. Did someone propose a pull request to fix this issue by ignoring ProcessLookupError? > In psutil I solved the “pid reused problem” by using process creation time to identify a process uniquely (on start). Well, that requires to write platform specific code. I would prefer to only use platform specific code when the platform provides something like pidfd: I understand that Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Illumos are concerned. I mean reuse an exisiting solution, rather than writing our own "workaround" (solution?).

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> -1 about the PR solution to suppress ProcessLookupError in case the process is gone.

Did someone propose a pull request to fix this issue by ignoring ProcessLookupError?

> In psutil I solved the “pid reused problem” by using process creation time to identify a process uniquely (on start). 

Well, that requires to write platform specific code.

I would prefer to only use platform specific code when the platform provides something like pidfd: I understand that Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Illumos are concerned. I mean reuse an exisiting solution, rather than writing our own "workaround" (solution?).

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