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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:42:22 -0500
From: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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--On Monday, August 19, 2002 02:29:08 PM -0700 Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@transmeta.com> wrote:

> No, you only need to make debugged children slightly pecial in wait4(), in
> that the parent must never see their state, only the fact that they are
> there (as if they were still running, in short, regardless of their _real_
> state)

So does that mean we need something like a 'count of children stolen by
debuggers' in the task struct that wait4() can check?

Dave

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Dave McCracken          IBM Linux Base Kernel Team      1-512-838-3059
dmccr@us.ibm.com                                        T/L   678-3059

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