[PATCH] clean the event context after fork in fork_domain_child()

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 05:24:23AM +0800, boyang wrote:
> Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 05:39:17PM +0100, Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
> >   
> >> boyang schrieb:
> >>     
> >
> > Ok, I hate to be negative here, but I don't think this
> > patch is needed. The original set of patches were
> > essential as they caused actual bugs, in that the
> > events were left active and could trigger inappropriately.
> >
> > This code tidies things up, but except for the fd
> > closing doesn't really fix any bugs or resource leaks.
> >   
> 1. Yes, It doesn't fix any bugs here.
> 2. No, It causes resource leaks. If the memory is not used by child any
> more, typiclally winbindd_clients_state() list, why should it be
> remained?  does it possibly waste memory?
> tidying thing up is not bad. :-)

No true, but once we've forked all the original pages
are left alone unless touched (in which case they have
to be copy-on-write copied), so changing things we
don't have to can be *more* wasteful, not less.

> > Back-porting the original fixes to 3.2 or 3.0 is
> > probably more useful (IMHO).
> >   
> I'll back port event context  and ticket refresh handler to 3.2 and 3.0
> as soon as possible. :-)

Thanks !

Jeremy.