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glibc / proc server interaction


From: Brent W. Baccala
Subject: glibc / proc server interaction
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 00:35:17 -0500

Hi -

I'm having trouble understanding how glibc's fork() interacts with the proc server.

In fork.c, we call task_create (line 172 in the Debian code), then shortly thereafter we call the proc server's proc_task2proc (line 205), and no error returns are tolerated.

How do we know that the proc server knows about the task yet?  It will get a notification from the kernel that a new task has been created, but how do we know that the notification has been processed yet?  Is there a race condition here, or am I missing something?

I tried my new "attachable" rpctrace on bash, and have found that the shell can no longer run programs after rpctrace attaches.  I get an error return on that proc_task2proc call (ESRCH - No such process), but I don't see why we shouldn't get the error return.

     agape
     brent


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