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Re: Caching of PID/TID after fork


On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 9:13 AM, Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net> wrote:

> This has probably been debated a lot of times in the past, but...

We should probably mention that caching of PID has caused bugs in the past, e.g.
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19957
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2006-07/msg00123.html

There is also
http://www.eglibc.org/archives/issues/msg00061.html
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/getpid_caching.html

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Paul Pluzhnikov


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