From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2004 17:38:47 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040105064117.0C20C2C065@lists.samba.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 04 Jan 2004 21:06:06 -0800." <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401042100510.15831-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com>
In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401042100510.15831-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com> you write:
> Honestly I do not like playing with SIGCLD/waitpid for things that do not
> concern real task exits.
Well, it's pretty well documented.
> But I think it can be avoided, and actually I
> don't know why I did not think about this before. We don't need to return
> a struct task_struct* for kthread_create(). We can have:
>
> struct kthread_struct {
Nope. That's EXACTLY the kind of burden on the caller I wanted to
avoid if at all possible.
I just have decide whether to submit the wait one or the shared queue
one to Andrew....
Rusty.
--
Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-05 6:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 3:31 [PATCH 1/2] kthread_create Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 4:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31 5:28 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 6:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-31 8:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-01-01 23:51 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-31 5:18 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 5:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 5:34 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 5:56 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 6:27 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-01 3:45 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-02 7:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-02 16:58 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 3:05 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-03 3:43 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 11:47 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 4:23 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 19:00 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-03 23:53 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 2:34 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 4:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 4:55 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-04 9:35 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-04 23:03 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 4:09 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-05 5:06 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-05 6:38 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2004-01-05 6:52 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-07 7:00 ` Rusty Russell
2004-01-07 7:25 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-08 0:33 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:42 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:40 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:41 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-03-29 15:39 ` Rusty Russell
2004-03-29 15:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 6:31 ` Srivatsa Vaddagiri
2003-12-31 7:12 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-31 23:25 ` Rusty Russell
2003-12-31 18:02 Albert Cahalan
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