Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 May 2002 21:38:29 -0300 (BRT) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.19pre9aa1 |
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On Thu, 30 May 2002, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Only in 2.4.19pre8aa3: 00_get_pid-no-deadlock-and-boosted-3 > Only in 2.4.19pre9aa1: 10_get_pid-no-deadlock-and-boosted-4 > > Discard the inferior attempt in pre9 and rediff (as Ihno noticed in > practice the complexity dominates, if you fill the pid space the fix in > mainline is useless anyways). Wonder why this much better fix isn't > been merged instead (it is been submitted for both 2.2 and 2.4). > This also fix a longstanding fork race present even in 2.2 that can > lead to two tasks getting the same pid.
Could you be more verbose in explaining the problems with the current approach and the advantages of your patch ?
Thanks
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