yes dear, your email do reach me :-). oopss....may be that's because my email is among the recipient. on a serious note, i have been receiving multiple bounce emails....as shown below....pointless to complain and alerting the kernelnewbies email id if it is problematic - which is why Rik's email is in here. Rik, any problem with the server? Thanks. PS: Bounced emails as below: This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Technical details of permanent failure: The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7720 [forlond.surriel.com. (0): Connection timed out] [humbolt.nl.linux.org. (5): Connection timed out] [forlond.surriel.com. (15): Connection timed out] ----- Original message ----- Received: by 10.181.138.13 with SMTP id q13mr1807113bkn.42.1223654468664; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.228.4 with HTTP; Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:01:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <804dabb00810100901y228ec983mf3303962cb415439@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:01:08 +0800 From: "Peter Teoh" <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Michael Blizek" <michi1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: CLONE_IO Cc: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> In-Reply-To: <20081009053500.GA16836@grml> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <804dabb00810081950m1975e5d5yb60679437128e63b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <20081009053500.GA16836@grml> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 5:03 AM, Balraj Dahiya <dahbal76@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All, > > I am not receiving any mail from kernelnewbies for last couple of days. > > Is there any problem there? > > Thanks, > Balraj > > --- On Thu, 10/9/08, Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Peter Teoh <htmldeveloper@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: CLONE_IO > To: "kernelnewbies" <kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008, 8:20 AM > > What is CLONE_IO used for? What is the definition / meaning of I/O > context sharing between parent and child? > > In fact, from header file: > > #define CLONE_FS 0x00000200 /* set if fs info shared > between processes */ > #define CLONE_FILES 0x00000400 /* set if open files shared > between processes */ > #define CLONE_IO 0x80000000 /* Clone io context */ > > These three looked seemingly the same/related.....differences among them? > > And in kernel/fork.c: > > /* > * Share io context with parent, if CLONE_IO is set > */ > if (clone_flags & CLONE_IO) { > tsk->io_context = ioc_task_link(ioc); > if (unlikely(!tsk->io_context)) > return -ENOMEM; > the io_context field is set, why and for what purpose? Thanks. > > > -- > Regards, > Peter Teoh > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with > "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ > > > -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ