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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: GNAT-pthreads integration bugs/questions
To: davem@caip.rutgers.edu (David S. Miller)
Date: Mon, 19 May 1997 08:58:30 -0700 (MST)
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>    > Put it at the bottom on the threads stack...
> 
>    There is no threads stack in an rfork.
> 
> A thread lacks a stack with rfork(), is this what you are
> saying?  How in the world does this work?

Heh.  "man rfork".

The rfork call produces processes with shared address spaces, not
threads.


					Regards,
					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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