[sr-dev] When is mod_register() called?

Alex Hermann alex at speakup.nl
Thu Feb 2 10:33:06 CET 2012


On Thursday 02 February 2012, Daniel-Constantin Mierla wrote:
> On 2/2/12 9:42 AM, Alex Hermann wrote:
> > While looking at this code a question emerged: is mod_register() called
> > before or after forking the subprocesses? (I hope the answer is after)
> 
> before forking (when the module is loaded), why do you hope is after?

I may misunderstand the concept of shared memory on forking, but isn't the 
allocated buffer shared among all forked processes then? Without any locking, 
funny things are going to happen.

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Greetings,

Alex Hermann




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