kernel thread as real threads..

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 23 17:38:51 PST 2006


On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-Jan-23 19:59:02 -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> >POSIX specifies that only 1 thread (the forking thread) is present
> >after a fork.
>
> Just to clarify, I presume you are talking about only one thread
> existing in the child process and the parent's threads still exist as
> they did before the fork().  If fork() arbitrarily killed all the
> threads in the parent process, that would be a real PITA.

Correct, I assumed we were talking about the child process.

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DE



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