Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent reuse of active thread group id | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:19:45 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> The thread group id of a task is initially assigned the value of that > task's pid, then is inherited for each child task created with > CLONE_THREAD. This patch makes sure that the thread group id is never > re-used as another task's pid as long as there's an active task with that > tgid.
Looks a sensible precaution, otherwise a kill might go to very wrong places. I'll apply it - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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