Fwd: [RFC] Kernel shared variables

[John Baldwin]

On Tuesday, June 05, 2012 9:07:08 am Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb at 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.

So you call getpid() on each access to a shared resource?

-- 
John Baldwin