Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:51:37 +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:
> The child (Y) it forks off, however, may use thread (Z) for some > subtask. Not pthreads, it might be just a clone-by-hand. So it may be > doing an exit while it's address space is still actively used by another > thread - but just because (X) wanted to use CLONE_SETTID to get the > child information on (Y) does _not_ mean that it's address space (and > thus that of Z) would somehow be updated at its exit.
yes, now i understand. When using raw clone() then indeed a CLEARTID set up in X's context does not necesserily have any meaning in Y's (and Z's) context.
Ingo
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