Re: More waitpid issues with CLONE_DETACHED/CLONE_THREAD

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> I haven't really looked into the problem with Dan's test case yet (didn't
> seem to reproduce, but I haven't tried a current and cruft-free kernel yet).  
> But I don't see any problem with the implementation of PTRACE_KILL.

Hmm.. For me, Dan's program (with "-DBUG -DNOTHREAD") results in a 
sleeping parent, and both children are likewise just sleeping. Despite the 
fact that the parent just did the PTRACE_KILL on child2.

I didn't trace it through the kernel, it just looked like PTRACE_KILL 
didn't do anything.

		Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/