From: Kurt Wall <kwall@kurtwerks.com>
To: "Gábor Lénárt" <lgb@lgb.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: OT: fork(): parent or child should run first?
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 20:38:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060112013858.GB6178@kurtwerks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060111130255.GC30219@lgb.hu>
On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 02:02:55PM +0100, Gábor Lénárt took 0 lines to write:
> Hello,
>
> Ok, you're absolutly right here. My problem is to find some solution and not
> to change the behaviour of fork() of course :) It's quite annoying to
> introduce some kind of IPC between parent and childs just for transferring a
> single pid_t ;-) Using exit status would be great (I would transfer "n")
But IPC, especially shared memory, would be great for this if you can
set up the shmid ahead of time. It would certainly be fast.
Kurt
--
The study of non-linear physics is like the study of non-elephant
biology.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-12 1:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-11 12:37 OT: fork(): parent or child should run first? Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 12:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-01-11 13:02 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 13:25 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 13:49 ` Ian Campbell
2006-01-11 13:55 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-01-11 14:05 ` Ian Campbell
2006-01-11 15:19 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-01-12 1:33 ` David Schwartz
2006-01-12 1:38 ` Kurt Wall [this message]
2006-01-12 17:23 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-01-12 20:19 ` Gábor Lénárt
2006-01-11 13:34 ` Roland Kuhn
2006-01-11 17:11 ` Lee Revell
2006-01-11 13:03 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2006-01-11 13:08 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-01-12 1:33 ` David Schwartz
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