On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 17:38:14 -0600 Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 09:38:55PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > It doesn't require the system to detect it, only mandate what to return > > > if it does detect it. > > > > We should be detecting at least the obvious case. > > What is the obvious case? A task that has never called clone()? Simple AB BA I would have thought obvious. Clone as has been said several times now is irrelevant as the standard is about *processes* [in the SuS sense] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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