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Add pidfd support to GLib

This is a placeholder issue for thinking about how best to integrate the upcoming kernel pidfd support into GLib. It would be a Linux-only feature, so would have to be behind platform abstraction APIs. Current thinking:

  • Use it widely in GSubprocess to identify the subprocess
  • Definitely use it for g_subprocess_send_signal()
  • Definitely use it for g_subprocess_wait()

pidfd support is supposed to be complete in kernel 5.3, due out at the end of August 2019.