threads/101323: fork(2) in threaded programs broken.

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608031614450.13543 at sea.ntplx.net>, Daniel Eischen wr
ites:

>Actually, I would prefer to emit an error message of the
>form:
>
>   "fork() from a threaded process is not defined by POSIX"
>
>and purposefully segfault ;-)

Are you working for us or the competition ?  :-)



>> Anyway, apart from the view from the theoretical high ground and
>> the fact that POSIX doesn't actually say anything helpful here, are
>> there any objections to the fix I proposed ?
>
>For that one specific change, no objection.  I have an
>objection to enabling the NOTYET in thr_kern.c without
>having an overall solution for libc as well.

I have no plans of anything like that.

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