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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