From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: getpid/vfork broken
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2004 07:48:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <404D76CA.4010500@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040308110105.GN3822@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
I've checked in some changes for x86 and x86-64. But I still think it's
a terrible idea to even try to support it.
For instance, on x86 it's not possible to get the tid field corrected,
too. So raise won't work (fortunately it's caught by the kernel). It
is possible on other archs but only at the code of making each and every
user of the tid field more complicated. That's simply not acceptable
and this is why vfork was crippled. It interferes far too much with
many other parts of the implementation.
Anyway, for the getpid handling, the other archs need to be handled,
too. The x86/x86-64 changes are kept small, I envision this is the
model for the other archs, too.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-09 7:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-07 23:18 Andreas Schwab
2004-03-07 23:30 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-08 2:22 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-08 2:28 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-08 2:37 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-08 13:10 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-09 1:28 ` Roland McGrath
2004-03-09 2:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-09 3:50 ` Richard Henderson
2004-03-09 7:48 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2004-03-09 13:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-09 13:59 ` [PATCH] getpid/vfork/raise fix Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-09 16:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-09 19:38 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 5:53 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-10 10:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 12:24 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 14:33 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 15:01 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 15:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-03-10 16:56 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 17:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 17:45 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 18:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 19:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 18:44 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-03-10 19:18 ` [PATCH] IA-64 pt-vfork fix Jakub Jelinek
2004-03-10 23:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
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