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To: "Rajan Ravindran" <rajancr@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: [Lse-tech] get_pid() performance fix
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From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 02:57:36 +0900
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"Rajan Ravindran" <rajancr@us.ibm.com> writes:

> Yes, pid's are guaranteed to be unique.
> Here the problem we focused is the time taken in finding the next
> available free pid.
> I really don't mean by your task->xxx.

I'm confused.

I said:
	task { pid = 300, pgrp = 301, };
	301 is free;

	get_pid() returns 301.

"task 301" can't call setsid(). pid 301 is available?
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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