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

Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Mon, 19 Aug 2002 21:15:31 +0200 (CEST)


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.

Ingo

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