Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 06 Sep 2002 23:06:48 +0200 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] pid_max hang again... |
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Searching for a free pid value and inserting the thread into the task list should be atomic, otherwise the same pid value could be given to 2 threads.
do_fork runs without the BLK, you might have to search for the pid within the write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) block.
-- Manfred
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