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Date:      Wed, 6 Jan 1999 21:05:07 +0000
From:      Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Squid + linuxthreads in action
Message-ID:  <E0zy08Z-0007Wm-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990106142240.A375@tar.com>
References:  <E0zxzBQ-0007Tt-00@fanf.noc.demon.net> <E0zxzBQ-0007Tt-00@fanf.noc.demon.net>

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"Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 08:04:00PM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
>
>> When the parent Squid process shuts down it leaves behind a pile of
>> orphan processes (the async-io handler threads). A glance at the aio
>> code reveals that Squid expects the pthread library to kill them --
>> they just loop indefinitely.
>
>A clarification question -- the async-io threads you're referring to
>are threads created with pthread_create from the linux threads library,
>and not threads created by the FreeBSD aio routines, correct?

That's right. (The aio_* routines use threads? I thought they were
just syscalls.)

>If so, this would indicate a bug in the linux threads port and/or the
>shared signal handling code -- all threads are supposed to be killed
>when the "main thread" exits.

That's what it looks like.

Tony.
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