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From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: threads/101323: fork(2) in threaded programs broken. 
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The following reply was made to PR threads/101323; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: threads/101323: fork(2) in threaded programs broken. 
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:08:20 +0000

 In message <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608031558540.13543@sea.ntplx.net>, Daniel Eischen wr
 ites:
 
 
 >There's no easy way to hold all library locks.  They are
 >littered in libc and libpthread and the application doesn't
 >have access to them.  You would have to teach libc to
 >record these locks and export a function to lib<thread>
 >to lock and unlock these them.
 
 I would be perfectly happy if libpthread would just at the very
 least release the locks it specifically grabs for the fork.
 
 There's a big difference between giving it a sensible shot and
 downright sabotaging it the way we do currently.
 
 Anyway, apart from the view from the theoretical high ground and
 the fact that POSIX doesn't actually say anything helpful here, are
 there any objections to the fix I proposed ?
 
 -- 
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