On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> "notify_parent()" uses p->p_pptr without any locking. As far as I can
> tell, that is wrong. It looks like it should have a read-lock on the
> tasklist_lock in order to not be racy (perhaps the parent does an exit on
> another CPU at just this moment
> those things where it does make a few cycles of difference. And it's one
> of the system calls people use for benchmarking.
We don't care about it, do we?
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