From: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
To: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@firmix.at>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
lgb@lgb.hu
Subject: Re: OT: fork(): parent or child should run first?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:49:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1136987361.6517.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1136985918.6547.115.camel@tara.firmix.at>
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:25 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote:
> Then this leaves the race if an old pid is reused in a newly created
> process before the last instances of that pid is cleaned up.
The PID won't be available to be re-used until the signal handler has
called waitpid() on it?
Ian.
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Ian Campbell
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-11 13:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 12:37 OT: fork(): parent or child should run first? Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 13:02 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 13:25 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 13:49 ` Ian Campbell [this message]
2006-01-11 13:55 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 14:05 ` Ian Campbell
2006-01-11 15:19 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-12 1:33 ` David Schwartz
2006-01-12 1:38 ` Kurt Wall
2006-01-12 17:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-12 20:19 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 13:34 ` Roland Kuhn
2006-01-11 17:11 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 13:03 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-01-11 13:08 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-01-12 1:33 ` David Schwartz
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