Is anybody working on extending procdesc support to rfork?
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:23:10 UTC
The procdesc(4) interface is a Capsicum-friendly, race-free alternative to fork and kill. It's a good fit for a new feature going into the Rust standard library. However, it's not quite complete enough to do a good job. Is anybody working on extending it? Or even interested in doing so? The functionality that Rust wants is: * kill - we can use pdkill() * wait - we can use poll() or select() * spawn - we must use pdfork/exec . posix_spawn would be better, but we can't do such a thing without procdesc support in rfork.