Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: futex question | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:18:39 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 13:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > Stared at the same place a minute ago :) But still I wonder if it's a > good idea to silently release locks and set the state to OWNERDEAD > instead of hitting the app programmer with a big clue stick in case > the app holds locks when calling execve().
Agreed, I rather like the feedback. With regular exit like things there's just not much we can do to avoid the mess, but here we can actually avoid it, seems a waste not to do so.
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