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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>
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   From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
   Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 10:50:21 -0700 (MST)

   The getppid is a bit more of a problem, if one thread of a process
   is disassociating (becoing a child of init) at the time another
   thread is calling; so you need to be careful with your assumptions
   to not screw future multithreading.

getppid() can be done with no locking...