Messages in this thread |  | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: proc fs and shared pids | Date | 1 Aug 1996 15:57:17 GMT |
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In article <199607310219.WAA06463@chaos.holmes.clemson.edu>, Lex Spoon <sspoon@clemson.edu> wrote: > >And /proc is not the only problem! What about kill()? waitpid()? > >It's NICE to be able to identify a process by just knowing its pid; >are there any real uses for two processes having the same pid? >
I think the very purpose (if there is one) of CLONE_PID is to make the various threads of a process act as a unit with regards to these various calls. Or?
-hpa
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