annoying Linux API peculiarity: there is no clean, race-free way to kill a specific process because killing uses a PID, which can be reused
I don't think they prevent PID reuse, but as long as you use the fd as the handle and ignore the PID, that doesn't matter
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Can the fds be used to prockill?
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no. well, not cleanly, at least.
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