From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:11:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m238qiyq8q.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D8EHpPGrc8MZnpvmh1j1LDudoZ0OO-zyfuDmhwLJqNsA@mail.gmail.com> (Duy Nguyen's message of "Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:45:38 +0700")
Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Andres Perera <andres.p@zoho.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> + uintmax_t pid;
>>
>> pid_t is always an signed type, therefore unintmax_t does not make
>> sense as a catch all value
>
> I only catch real process id. In practice we don't have processes with
> negative pid_t, do we? I can't find any document about this, but at
> least waitpid seems to treat negative pid (except -1) just as an
> indicator while the true pid is the positive counterpart.
Negative pids are used for denoting process groups in various
interfaces. No process can have a negative pid.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-10 7:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-03 4:20 [PATCH] gc: reject if another gc is running, unless --force is given Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-08-03 6:21 ` [PATCH v2] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-08-03 7:52 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-03 10:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-03 9:49 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-03 10:01 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-03 10:40 ` Johannes Sixt
2013-08-05 14:19 ` [PATCH v3] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-08-05 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-05 18:37 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-06 6:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-06 6:45 ` Ramkumar Ramachandra
2013-08-08 11:05 ` [PATCH v4] " Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2013-08-08 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-09 12:52 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-09 16:00 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-09 16:29 ` Andres Perera
2013-08-09 17:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-10 0:45 ` Duy Nguyen
2013-08-10 7:11 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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