This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri May 31 16:42:23 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (IDENT:root@entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19228 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:41:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA32690; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 20:39:47 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:53:28 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:53:10 -0400 Received: from adsl-206-170-148-147.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([206.170.148.147]:63350 "HELO ixodes.goop.org") by vger.rutgers.edu with SMTP id ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 19:49:04 -0400 Received: (qmail 13943 invoked by uid 223); 20 Jul 1999 23:49:02 -0000 Message-Id: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19990720232225.15828.qmail@defiant.cqc.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 16:49:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge To: Alan Curry Subject: Re: Patch: CLONE_PPID (was kernel thread support - LWP's) Cc: Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com, thockin@isunix.it.ilstu.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, weejock@ferret.lmh.ox.ac.uk Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel-outgoing-dig On 20-Jul-99 Alan Curry wrote: > Jeremy Fitzhardinge writes the following: >> >>On 20-Jul-99 Matthew Kirkwood wrote: >>> There may be code out there which gets confused on receiving a SIGCLD >>> for (or wait()ing on) a child which it doesn't remember creating. >> >>Any process can have children it doesn't know about creating, so this is not >>a >>new situation. It doesn't seem worth adding cruft to prevent. > > Are you prepared to give an example? > Sure: if (fork()) execl("unsuspecting program"); else { /* do things, exit when it's least expected */ } J - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/