Re: PROBLEM: getpid() returning same value as getppid()

[Nick Bowler]

On 16:45 Wed 26 May     , Sébastien Paumier wrote:
> Hi,
> here is a bug that occurs on my kernel 2.6.31-21, maybe with older ones. 
>   If a C program contains a function with the constructor attribute that 
> calls getpid(), then, a call to syscall(SYS_fork) produces a son that 
> obtains the same value calling getpid() or getppid().

The GNU C library caches the results of getpid, which is probably the
cause of your grief.  This cache relies on the glibc wrappers for fork
and friends, which you have bypassed by using syscall directly.

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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