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    "date": "2025-04-24T11:40:54",
    "name": "[RFC,v5,0/9] libcamera: process: Remove `ProcessManager` singleton",
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        "To": "libcamera-devel@lists.libcamera.org",
        "Subject": "[RFC PATCH v5 0/9] libcamera: process: Remove `ProcessManager`\n\tsingleton",
        "Date": "Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:40:54 +0200",
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    "content": "The main goal is to remove the need for the ProcessManager singleton. That\nis achieved by using pidfd + clone3(), which raises the minimum\nkernel version to 5.4. There are also additional misc. changes.\n\nchanges in v5:\n  * send the actually intended version...\n\nchanges in v4:\n  * address review comments\n\nv4: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/cover/23242/\nv3: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/cover/23013/\nv2: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/patch/22609/\nv1: https://patchwork.libcamera.org/patch/22522/\n\nBarnabás Pőcze (9):\n  libcamera: process: Disable copy/move\n  libcamera: process: Misc. cleanup around `execv()`\n  libcamera: process: Use `pid_` member to decide if running\n  libcamera: process: Return error if already running\n  libcamera: process: Ensure that file descriptors are nonnegative\n  libcamera: process: Use span instead of vector\n  libcamera: process: Move `closeAllFdsExcept()`\n  libcamera: process: Use `close_range()` when available\n  libcamera: process: Remove `ProcessManager` singleton\n\n include/libcamera/internal/camera_manager.h |   1 -\n include/libcamera/internal/process.h        |  45 +--\n meson.build                                 |   6 +-\n src/libcamera/ipc_pipe_unixsocket.cpp       |   9 +-\n src/libcamera/process.cpp                   | 312 +++++++-------------\n test/ipc/unixsocket_ipc.cpp                 |   2 -\n test/log/log_process.cpp                    |   2 -\n test/process/process_test.cpp               |   7 +-\n 8 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 260 deletions(-)\n\n--\n2.49.0"
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