Re: File locking anomaly under 2.0.30

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:59:52 +0100 (BST)


> A possible solution would be to have a flag for clone() which gets stored
> in the child's task_struct and which would instruct the kernel to use
> current->pptr instead of current for lock checks. This would mean that

Doesn't work if the parent dies and the other threads live on as a group

Alan