Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Aug 1997 13:05:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: Killing clones |
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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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