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Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 18:53:09 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] revert zap_other_threads breakage, disallow CLONE_THREAD without CLONE_DETACHED
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Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'd really prefer not to keep a bit around that has to mean the same thing 
> as another bit - that way just lies madness. So I'll document 
> CLONE_DETACHED as being a no-op, and change the _one_ place that used it 
> to just use CLONE_THREAD instead.

Don't forget to mention that software that may be run on 2.5 kernels
needs to set both bits, else won't work as expected.

-- Jamie