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Re: Supporting CLONE_NEWPID namespaces and process-shared mutexes supported?
- From: Torvald Riegel <triegel at redhat dot com>
- To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs dot nagy at arm dot com>
- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:33:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: Supporting CLONE_NEWPID namespaces and process-shared mutexes supported?
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On Tue, 2017-10-24 at 14:45 -0700, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> We use tid's in the internals of a mutex to identify owner. This is
> considered unique for the system (though it has an ABA pid-reuse
> problem).
The owner is only required for some mutex types. Are these types
required for the intended use cases?