[uml-devel] killing threads and ptrace

[William S. <wst...@po...>]

Good day, all,

	From http://lwn.net/Articles/7786/bigpage , search for "Making 
threads die quickly":

	Ingo's solution is simply to maintain a separate list of all
processes which are being debugged with ptrace() at any given time. That
list will generally be quite short. When a process exits, it is now
necessary to look at its list of children and the ptrace list, but at no
other processes. No more scalability problems.

	Does his have any implications, good or bad, for the uml kernel?
	Cheers,
	- Bill

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