Re: [patch] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.47-C0

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 20:59:06 EST


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> could you please make a decision regarding this? I'd like to make a new
> nptl release which fixes the bug this patch helps to fix so that we get
> testing (also of the kernel issues).
>
> Ingo's last patch has two pointer

Ingo's patch (a) doesn't apply any more and (b) was broken anyway. It
sets the child tidptr from the parent _after_ doing the copy_mm(), so the
child setting doesn't work at all for the non-CLONE_VM case. So I don't
have any decision to make.

                Linus

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