Re: glibc / proc server interaction

[Brent W. Baccala]

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 2:42 PM, Brent W. Baccala <cosine@freesoft.org> wrote:

On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 1:51 AM, Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> wrote:

Hello,

Brent W. Baccala, on lun. 05 févr. 2018 00:35:17 -0500, wrote:
> 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?

Isn't the notification synchronous ?

I don't see how.  The kernel just sends a mach_notify_new_task message, and there is no reply.

OK, I think I've figured this out.  The proc server's task_find() function will call add_tasks() if its hash lookup fails, and that function queries the kernel's task list and adds tasks that it doesn't know about. 

    agape

    brent