Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:44:11 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6 |
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On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We sh ould just have made a separate "tsk->tracer" pointer, instead of > continuing with the perverted "my parent is my tracer" logic. We shouldn't > really re-write the parent/child relationship just because we're being > traced.
I've always wondered if the process model shouldn't be virtualized much like files are virtual. One application of this could be for ptraced processes, they have a different ops vector than non-traced processes. Any chance that could work? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - 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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