Re: patch for CLONE_PID enhancements to clone

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 7 Oct 1997 20:51:22 +0100 (BST)


> Use tid's in the same number space as pid's. That way you can extend
> the existing syscalls in a very clean fashion.

Please keep them seperate as you seem to intend to. The upper bits of pid
space are needed for future bigger machines and cluster node ids. Using them
for a tid stops the growth of pid space being sensible.

Alan