Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:42:22 -0500 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6 |
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--On Monday, August 19, 2002 02:29:08 PM -0700 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:
> No, you only need to make debugged children slightly pecial in wait4(), in > that the parent must never see their state, only the fact that they are > there (as if they were still running, in short, regardless of their _real_ > state)
So does that mean we need something like a 'count of children stolen by debuggers' in the task struct that wait4() can check?
Dave
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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