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From: Daniel Cheng <gmane@sdiz.net>
To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: Copy-on-Write
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:17:57 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <focc27$s9v$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C86899CCB10A6C4E93D5978DCB232D4B07A303A9@GDCMX01.igglobal.com>

Rajat Jain wrote:
[...]
> 
> So as the author says, isn't running child first a good idea that needs to be implemented?

This have been discussed for a few times in lkml. The actual behavior
have been change back and fore for a few times.

You should never depend on this implementation detail for not doing
process synchronization.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rajat
> -

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-06 13:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-06  5:49 Copy-on-Write Rick Brown
2008-02-06 11:00 ` Copy-on-Write Manish Katiyar
2008-02-06 12:33   ` Copy-on-Write Rajat Jain
2008-02-06 12:41     ` Copy-on-Write Manish Katiyar
2008-02-06 13:17     ` Daniel Cheng [this message]
2008-02-07 15:30 ` Copy-on-Write Mulyadi Santosa
2008-02-07 23:46   ` Copy-on-Write Brandon Philips
2008-02-08  2:11     ` Copy-on-Write Renê
     [not found]     ` <5f9618380802071809v24f2be47xc9aea8664a8f8488@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-13  5:44       ` Copy-on-Write Brandon Philips

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