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Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:00:55 +0200 (CEST)
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: do_syslog/__down_trylock lockup in current BK
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On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> When is this happening?  It's not necessarily a bug.  If the process was
> traced, then __ptrace_unlink will set p->parent = p->real_parent when it
> unlinks.

it's not traced. And if you look at the patch i've put the assert into the
!traced branch ...

	Ingo

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