Re: [patch] potential death in disassociate_ctty()

[Linus Torvalds]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andrew Morton  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Also, somewhere on the path from kernel 2.2 to 2.4 the call to
>do_notify_parent() was moved inside the tasklist lock.  Why was this?

Ehh.. Because that is also what protects our "parent" pointer.

                Linus
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