libpthread/fork issue

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Fri Mar 7 14:07:48 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0600, Marko, Shaun wrote:
> In short, if a process creates a thread, joins
> the thread, then forks a child process which creates a thread, the
> child's attempt to create a thread will cause the program to dump core
> with the following error message.

fork and pthread should not be mixed. You can and normally should only
assume that the current thread is present in the child.

Joerg


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