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Cc: Gianni <gianni@freebsd.org>, Alan Cox <alc@rice.edu>,
	Alexander Kabaev <kan@freebsd.org>, Attilio Rao <attilio@freebsd.org>,
	Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org,
	Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [RFC] Kernel shared variables
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John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> writes:
> I think this is an important question actually.  Is there anything
> that really needs to be here besides gettimeofday()?  I mean, is there
> any real-world application that needs to call getpid() or getppid() a
> bunch of times?

Yes, for fork detection when accessing resources shared between
descendants of the process that allocated them.

DES
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