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SubjectRe: Killing clones


On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> Only trouble is some folks are experimentally using the top 8 bits for
> machine ID doing distributed Linux kernel stuff.

We could just add a "current->tid" field - there is really nothing that
says that we should pack everything into the "pid".

Linus


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