Re: [PATCH 00/11] Task watchers: Introduction

[Peter Williams]

Matt Helsley wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 15:41 +1000, Peter Williams wrote:
> > On a related note, I can't see where the new task's notify field gets 
> > initialized during fork.
>
> It's initialized in kernel/sys.c:notify_per_task_watchers(), which calls
> RAW_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD(&task->notify) in response to WATCH_TASK_INIT.

I think that's too late.  It needs to be done at the start of 
notify_watchers() before any other watchers are called for the new task.

Peter
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