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Date:      Tue, 24 Jan 2006 12:22:36 +1100
From:      Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel thread as real threads..
Message-ID:  <20060124012236.GU25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601231954150.17167-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
References:  <43D56E79.60504@elischer.org> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601231954150.17167-100000@sea.ntplx.net>

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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.

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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