Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:46:28 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [patch] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2 |
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On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A thread library - maybe not. But the SETTID thing makes sense even for > a fork() user to avoid the fork/SIGCHLD race condition. In contrast, a > CLRTID does _not_ make sense in that situation, so I actually think they > are two separate issues (and should thus be two separate bits).
okay. And it also makes sense for a newly forked task to know (and cache) its own PID, without having to call getpid() again.
Ingo
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