Re: [patch] user-vm-unlock-2.5.31-A2

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Thu Aug 15 2002 - 18:47:19 EST


On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> A thread library - maybe not. But the SETTID thing makes sense even for
> a fork() user to avoid the fork/SIGCHLD race condition. In contrast, a
> CLRTID does _not_ make sense in that situation, so I actually think they
> are two separate issues (and should thus be two separate bits).

we could skip the 'clear' bit if this is the last release of the mm.

        Ingo

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