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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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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