Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 15 Aug 2002 16:45:03 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2 |
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On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > personally i'd make it even more compact by merging the two clone flags as > well, something along: CLONE_MANAGE_TID. I cannot see any reason for a > thread library to use one of the bits only.
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).
Linus
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