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From: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@au1.ibm.com>
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On 02/03/11 16:47, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> BTW. I suppose it's an expected behaviour that thread created with a
> given default value will keep that value even when the default is later
> changed right ? And their descendents will use the same default as the
> original thread, not the new default, at least that's how I read your
> code :-) Maybe that should be documented somewhere...
>    

That's right. The idea was to let one set of 
processes-which-do-not-access-dscr-directly to work+fork with one value 
and other set to work+fork with another value. I have no idea who and 
how is going to use it though. Hope the HPC team tells me if something 
is wrong :-)

-- 
Alexey Kardashevskiy
IBM OzLabs, LTC Team

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