The goal of the work that produced this was to remove the global
tasklist. Changing ABI's and/or breaking userspace was not "within the
rules" of that. My allocator relies on that other infrastructure for
notification of release of pid's, and is really only meant to remove
the reliance of fork() on the tasklist. That work is probably more
relevant to heavy tty usage than forkbombs, despite the O(1) get_pid().
I am glad people happen to like various tidbits of it, though. =)
Cheers,
Bill
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