Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 23:41:01 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r219727 - head/sys/vm Message-ID: <4D8AE77D.9030005@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <201103230945.37726.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <201103180647.p2I6lNCB051745@svn.freebsd.org> <4D831A82.7070308@freebsd.org> <201103230945.37726.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 3/23/11 6:45 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday, March 18, 2011 4:40:34 am Julian Elischer wrote: >> > Err, no, that has never been true. The reason it has to go on the list > immediately is to reserve the PID against concurrent fork()s. > I'm petty sure it was true at one stage. probably around the time I added threads, (2001?) because I distinctly remember having to get everything set up and THEN putting in into the list. Pid allocation was done some other way than having the process in the list but I forget the details.
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