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Subject: Re: 2.6.x Fork Problem?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 20:09, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > Yup - the parent process executed waitpid before the child process finished 
> > the setup. This can happen in a multi-cpu environment or even a single, if
> > the scheduler puts the parent process higher than the child in the queue.
> 
> ugh! I can follow the rationale for SMP.

Such a behaviour would not be rational, so we don't do anything like
that.