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On 3/23/11 6:45 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, March 18, 2011 4:40:34 am Julian Elischer wrote:
>>
> Err, no, that has never been true.  The reason it has to go on the list
> immediately is to reserve the PID against concurrent fork()s.
>
I'm petty sure it was true at one stage. probably around the time I 
added threads, (2001?)
because I distinctly remember  having to get everything set up and 
THEN putting in into the list.
Pid allocation was done some other way than having the process in the list
but I forget the details.