Re: [PATCH] Per-task watchers: Enable inheritance

[John T. Kohl]

>>>>> "MattH" ==   <matthltc@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

MattH> This allows per-task watchers to implement inheritance of the
MattH> same function and/or data in response to the initialization of
MattH> new tasks. A watcher might implement inheritance using the
MattH> following notifier_call snippet:

I think this would meet our needs--we (MVFS) need to initialize some new
state in a child process based on our state in the parent process
(essentially, module-private inherited per-process state).  It may still
be a bit clumsy to find the per-process state in other situations,
though.  While a process is executing our module's code, would it be
safe to traverse current's notifier chain to find our state?

-- 
John Kohl
Senior Software Engineer - Rational Software - IBM Software Group
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
jtk@xxxxxxxxxx
<http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/>
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