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SubjectRe: futex question
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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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