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From: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Subject: Re: [patch] potential death in disassociate_ctty()
Date: 17 Nov 2000 21:34:24 -0800
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In article <3A15FF3F.9692D272@uow.edu.au>,
Andrew Morton  <andrewm@uow.edu.au> wrote:
>
>Also, somewhere on the path from kernel 2.2 to 2.4 the call to
>do_notify_parent() was moved inside the tasklist lock.  Why was this?

Ehh.. Because that is also what protects our "parent" pointer.

		Linus
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