Subject: Re: stopping childs (patch included)
To: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/06/2002 10:15:04
Daniel Carosone wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:32:16PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > Isn't there a flag field somewhere? These flags don't really need more
> > than one bit each.
> 
> They're actually counters which are decremented each time, so the
> next N fork/exec's get stopped.

Why you need next N stopped? I think it's perfectly OK
to have it just a flag - 'stop child after fork' and 'stop after exec'.
No need for counter.

Jaromir 
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