glibc / proc server interaction

2018-02-04 Thread Brent W. Baccala
Hi - I'm having trouble understanding how glibc's fork() interacts with the proc server. In fork.c, we call task_create (line 172 in the Debian code), then shortly thereafter we call the proc server's proc_task2proc (line 205), and no error returns are tolerated. How do we know that the proc ser

Re: glibc / proc server interaction

2018-02-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Brent W. Baccala, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 00:35:17 -0500, wrote: > How do we know that the proc server knows about the task yet?  It will get a > notification from the kernel that a new task has been created, but how do we > know that the notification has been processed yet? Isn't the notifi