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SubjectRe: 2.4.19pre9aa1


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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