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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: More waitpid issues with CLONE_DETACHED/CLONE_THREAD
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 00:46:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040201054617.GA15373@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200402010542.i115gqbM026295@magilla.sf.frob.com>

On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:42:52PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I thought that a new group leader would be swapped in to that TID?  But
> > I was always confused by the mechanics of that.
> 
> The group leader never changes.  The zombie group leader just sticks around
> until there are no other threads in the group.  (The only exception here is
> exec.)

Ah, thanks, it was exec that I was thinking of.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

      reply	other threads:[~2004-02-01  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-01  3:25 More waitpid issues with CLONE_DETACHED/CLONE_THREAD Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-01  4:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-01  4:43   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-01  5:12     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-01 21:41       ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-01 22:25         ` Roland McGrath
2004-02-02  0:55           ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-02  2:20             ` Andries Brouwer
2004-02-02  2:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-02-02  0:52         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-02  2:41           ` Davide Libenzi
2004-02-02  2:55             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-02-04 14:22               ` fs/eventpoll : reduce sizeof(struct epitem) dada1
2004-02-05  4:23                 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-02-01  5:12     ` More waitpid issues with CLONE_DETACHED/CLONE_THREAD Linus Torvalds
2004-02-01  5:14       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-02-01  5:42         ` Roland McGrath
2004-02-01  5:46           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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