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
next prev parent 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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