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[snip] 
> at least some assumptions that the child won't be
> doing much before
> execing or exiting. (But Im sure one of the

The child process should be able to call any system
calls it likes -without assuming that pthreads from
the parent process have been copied over to the child
process. I spose most implementations support that.

regards
-kamal



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