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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@xs4all.nl>
Cc: Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net>,
	Torin Ford <code-monkey@qwest.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.x Fork Problem?
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 23:07:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092434870.25002.27.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040813190958.GB18563@janus>

On Gwe, 2004-08-13 at 20:09, Frank van Maarseveen wrote:
> > Yup - the parent process executed waitpid before the child process finished 
> > the setup. This can happen in a multi-cpu environment or even a single, if
> > the scheduler puts the parent process higher than the child in the queue.
> 
> ugh! I can follow the rationale for SMP.

Such a behaviour would not be rational, so we don't do anything like
that.


      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-08-13 23:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-12  0:01 2.6.x Fork Problem? Torin Ford
2004-08-12 12:08 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 14:26 ` Jesse Pollard
2004-08-13 19:09   ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-13 19:36     ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-08-13 20:06       ` Frank van Maarseveen
2004-08-13 22:50         ` Torin Ford
2004-08-13 22:07     ` Alan Cox [this message]

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