Re: [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6

george anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 13:03:09 -0700


Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, george anzinger wrote:
>
> > The current way its done, a child can not get the pid of its father and
> > thus would NEED to know it was being traced in order to do anything that
> > required such. [...]
>
> what do you mean by this? sys_getppid() uses ->real_parent so it gets the
> proper PID.
>
Oops. Open mouth, insert foot :)
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