Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.18-rc2 Fix for get_pid hang | Date | Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:20:46 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> > to less than the number of pids available. You seem to be fixing a non > > problem by adding branches to the innards of a loop. > > > That was my original thought, but as Rik and WLI already pointed out, it > won't account for process groups, tgids, etc. This isn't a purely > theoretical problem either, as we have run up against it many times.
Agreed - and I don't have any better solutions except 32bit pid_t - which I suspect one day we are going to need. At least the O(1) scheduler now makes it feasible 8) - 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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