Re: [PATCH] pid_max hang again...

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Fri Sep 06 2002 - 16:06:48 EST

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Searching for a free pid value and inserting the thread into the task
list should be atomic, otherwise the same pid value could be given to 2
threads.

do_fork runs without the BLK, you might have to search for the pid
within the write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock) block.

-- Manfred

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