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Incarnation identity: proving that the process wearing a recorded pid is the server that recorded it.
A pid alone is a name the operating system recycles; signalling by bare
pid is how a stop verb kills a stranger. The discriminator is the process
START INSTANT, read through the same instrument (sysinfo) on both the
write side (the server records its own start instant at boot) and the
verify side (the stop/status verbs read the live process table), so the
comparison is exact equality on one instrument’s answer — never clock
arithmetic between two instruments. A reused pid wears a different start
instant; a dead pid wears none.
Structs§
- Self
Identity - What this process knows about itself at boot: the fields of the pid record that come from the process table and the binary on disk.
Enums§
- Incarnation
Probe - The live process table’s answer about a recorded incarnation.
Functions§
- probe
- Probe the live process table for the incarnation a record names.
- self_
identity - Read this process’s own identity at boot.