Messages in this thread | | | From | (Linus Torvalds) | Subject | Re: [patch] potential death in disassociate_ctty() | Date | 17 Nov 2000 21:34:24 -0800 |
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In article <3A15FF3F.9692D272@uow.edu.au>, Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au> wrote: > >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.
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