From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Khalid Aziz Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 22:53:26 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Re: prctl patch for fpu faults Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org That sounds interesting. You could use it on init task as David suggested and set the behavior for all tasks. But how would you implement it form a user space tool like "prctl". sys_prctl() operates on the current task only. Are you planning to add another system call? -- Khalid Jesse Barnes wrote: > > I was thinking of hacking up the 'prctl' tool to take a PID as an > argument, that way it could set the flags for any task. It would allow > an initscript to set init's flags, among other things. Would such a > change qualify as a cleaner solution? > > Jesse > ================================== Khalid Aziz Linux Systems Operation R&D (970)898-9214 Hewlett-Packard khalid@fc.hp.com Fort Collins, CO