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SubjectRe: [Q] why switch_exec_pids() changes thread group leader pid?
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 03:29:47PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
>
>>I've been looking through switch_exec_pids() function and found that it
>>changes thread group leader PID/TGID. Is it really a good idea to change
>> pid of the process during it's lifetime? I could understand if it was
>>happenning in the context of that process, but pid changes everytime a
>>thread calls do_execve().
>>As far as I can see, leader doesn't have to do any of detach_pid()'s.
>>Instead thread should change it's PID/TGID.
>
>
> It's only done when a thread that is not a thread group leader
> execve()'s. This is actually pretty rare and confined to threaded
> applications, so it should be almost never called.
Heh, rare doesn't mean correct, yeah? :)

Kirill

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