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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > A thread library - maybe not. But the SETTID thing makes sense even for > a fork() user to avoid the fork/SIGCHLD race condition. In contrast, a > CLRTID does _not_ make sense in that situation, so I actually think they > are two separate issues (and should thus be two separate bits). okay. And it also makes sense for a newly forked task to know (and cache) its own PID, without having to call getpid() again. Ingo - 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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