Re: clone() <-> getpid() bug in 2.6?

[David S. Miller]

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:47:43 -0400
Robert Love <rml@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is almost certainly done to improve the speed of some stupid
> microbenchmark - say, one that just calls getpid() repeatedly (simple
> because it is NOT slow) to measure system call overhead.

Luckily lmbench and friends use getppid() specifically because it
is impossible to cache that (as far as I can tell).
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