Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 1997 03:51:24 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > To make threaded apps very compatible: > getpid() could return just the bottom 16 bits to make userspace > even more happy. Then a gettid() function gets the whole 32 bits. > Normal kill() handles both just fine.
Works for me.
> Symmetry requires numbering unthreaded processes from 0x10000. > They still show up with low numbers and can be killed with the > low numbers. > > That gets rid of some special case code for thread #1.
Sure, I can live with this (in fact I think I prefer it to my original setup).
Now, does anybody actually want to _implement_ this?
Linus
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