Re: [PATCH] 2.4.9 Make thread group id visible in/proc/<pid>/status

From: Dave McCracken (dmc@austin.ibm.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 13:59:13 EST


--On Monday, August 20, 2001 11:50:37 -0700 george anzinger
<george@mvista.com> wrote:

> Are you possibly also looking into allocating a small data structure to
> the thread group? A place to keep thread group signal info, perhaps?

No, not specifically. A mechanism already exists to share info between
cooperating tasks, where there's a common structure pointed to by each task
(ie mm_struct, signal_struct, files_struct, fs_struct, etc). I think we
can use this mechanism for any info a group of tasks needs to share.

Dave McCracken

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