On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> You would need to wrap up fork(2) as well, to clear the cached value
> for the child.
Yes, the child has to clear the value after a fork().
> And what about getppid(2)? This one is tricky, because it can actually
> change.
getppid() should be already handled correctly by the CLONE_PARENT thing,
so that shouldn't need any special attention.
Linus
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