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Date:      Sat, 12 Apr 1997 21:44:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
To:        jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell)
Cc:        dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, CVS-committers@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-all@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit:  src/sys/i386/ibcs2 imgact_coff.c src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/i386/linux imgact_linux.c src/sys/kern imgact
Message-ID:  <199704130244.VAA03239@dyson.iquest.net>
In-Reply-To: <199704130231.MAA05870@freebsd1.cimlogic.com.au> from John Birrell at "Apr 13, 97 12:31:42 pm"

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> John Dyson wrote:
> [...]
> >   Implement rfork(!RFPROC !RFMEM), which allows a thread to divorce its memory
> >   	from the other threads of a group.
> >   
> >   Implement rfork(!RFPROC RFCFDG), which closes all file descriptors, eliminating
> >   	possible existing shares with other threads/processes.
> >   
> >   Implement rfork(!RFPROC RFFDG), which divorces the file descriptors for a
> >   	thread from the rest of the group.
> >   
> >   Fix the case where a thread does an exec.  It is almost nonsense for a thread
> >   	to modify the other threads address space by an exec, so we
> >   	now automatically divorce the address space before modifying it.
> [...]
> 
> Where do these changes leave rfork(!RFPROC RFMEM !RFFDG)??? 8-)
> 
My previous response was wrong.  It won't do anything.

John



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