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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "Robert Święcki" <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 19:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y4202blm.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP145pj+yVz_7ZF8_dNqZ2NE22A_O5QyT195Gy0TgvKq1j3skw@mail.gmail.com> ("Robert \=\?utf-8\?B\?xZp3acSZY2tpIidz\?\= message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2016 18:13:41 +0200")

* Robert Święcki:

> Thefore I'd like to ask for one of the following solutions:
>
> 1. Don't cache PID/TID
>
> 2. Provide some kind of symbol, which would force for TID/PID to be
> reloaded in glibc.

I think we need a different design.

For example, when you clone a process, you really want that all
cryptographic random number generators are reinitialized.  Making this
depend on getpid does not really work, so we need a more general
solution.

The other question I have is whether we talk about clone-as-fork
exclusively.  Introducing a new thread into the process on which
non-free-standing code can run using clone is a different matter
altogether.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-10-07 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-06 16:13 Robert Święcki
2016-10-06 16:34 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2016-10-06 17:03   ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-06 18:32     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-06 17:26 ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 17:42   ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-06 18:05     ` Rich Felker
2016-10-06 18:26       ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-06 21:35         ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-07  0:42           ` Zack Weinberg
2016-10-07  0:43             ` Zack Weinberg
2016-10-07 14:44               ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-07 18:20                 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-07 18:30               ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-07 19:38 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-10-07 21:23   ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-09 10:05     ` Florian Weimer
2016-10-09 14:19       ` Robert Święcki
2016-10-10 18:03         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-04 15:14           ` Florian Weimer
2016-11-04 16:03             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-07 16:04               ` Florian Weimer

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