Re: [PATCH] show_task: real_parent

[Linus Torvalds]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Roland McGrath wrote:
> 
> The show_task function invoked by sysrq-t et al displays the
> pid and parent's pid of each task.  It seems more useful to
> show the actual process hierarchy here than who is using
> ptrace on each process.

Hmm. It could go both ways. If the problem is some ptrace()/wait4() 
interaction issue (which is certainly not unheard of!) the parent that 
matters for the kernel may be the right thing to print out.

I wonder if we should just print out both (or perhaps print out the 
ptrace parent only if it differs from the normal parent?)

I'll apply this, because I agree that it's sensible in general, I just 
wonder how often anybody really even cares about the parent information 
when it's not about some wait-related issue..

		Linus
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