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Date:      Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:38:46 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kernel thread as real threads..
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0601232038010.17167-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060124012236.GU25397@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>

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On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Peter Jeremy wrote:

> 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.

Correct, I assumed we were talking about the child process.

-- 
DE




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