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From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:44:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020819104411.A29059@work.bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208191036040.11842-100000@home.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0700

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 10:42:06AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> We sh ould just have made a separate "tsk->tracer" pointer, instead of 
> continuing with the perverted "my parent is my tracer" logic. We shouldn't 
> really re-write the parent/child relationship just because we're being 
> traced.

I've always wondered if the process model shouldn't be virtualized much
like files are virtual.  One application of this could be for ptraced
processes, they have a different ops vector than non-traced processes.
Any chance that could work?
-- 
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Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-19 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-19 12:16 [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 16:15 ` [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-B4 Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 17:42 ` [patch] O(1) sys_exit(), threading, scalable-exit-2.5.31-A6 Linus Torvalds
2002-08-19 17:44   ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2002-08-19 18:08   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 18:31     ` Dave McCracken
2002-08-19 18:36       ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 18:51         ` Dave McCracken
2002-08-19 19:37           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 20:59           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 21:01             ` Dave McCracken
2002-08-19 21:29             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-19 21:42               ` Dave McCracken
2002-08-19 22:36                 ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-20 14:32                   ` Dave McCracken
2002-08-20 14:36               ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-27 15:39                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-28  2:53                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-20  3:21             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-19 19:10         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-19 18:55       ` george anzinger
2002-08-19 19:15         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-08-19 20:03           ` george anzinger
2002-08-20 10:36     ` Richard Zidlicky

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