Re: Killing clones

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 22:12:02 +0100 (BST)


> > That gets rid of some special case code for thread #1.
>
> Sure, I can live with this (in fact I think I prefer it to my original
> setup).
>
> Now, does anybody actually want to _implement_ this?

Only trouble is some folks are experimentally using the top 8 bits for
machine ID doing distributed Linux kernel stuff.