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SubjectRe: [patch] potential death in disassociate_ctty()
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In article <3A15FF3F.9692D272@uow.edu.au>,
Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> wrote:
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>Also, somewhere on the path from kernel 2.2 to 2.4 the call to
>do_notify_parent() was moved inside the tasklist lock. Why was this?

Ehh.. Because that is also what protects our "parent" pointer.

Linus
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