Re: proc fs and shared pids

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi)
Wed, 31 Jul 1996 18:08:55 +0300 (EET DST)


On Mon, 29 Jul 1996, Michiel Boland wrote:
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> How is the proc FS going to handle tasks that share the same PID?

Badly.

Linus

(Seriously, the CLONE_PID option needs to be cleaned up a bit, and I
suspect I'll make a 16-bit "thread ID" in the high bits of the pid or
something like that)