Re: [uml-devel] tls: set_thread_area failed

[Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>]

On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, blaisorblade@yahoo.it whispered secretively:
> On Sunday 11 December 2005 07:34, Rob Landley wrote:
>> On Friday 09 December 2005 12:39, Antoine Martin wrote:
>> > I wasn't even thinking about that! So true, why on earth would fsck
>> > require threading!?

It doesn't, at least not as of e2fsprogs-1.38.

>> fsck -A does all filesystems in fstab in one run, and the single case
>> apparently defaults to one thread.
>>
>> I didn't say it was a good design... :)

e2fsprogs-1.38/misc/fsck.c:check_all() repeatedly invokes fsck_device(),
which invokes execute(), which does a perfectly normal fork()/exec().
No threads here. Nor is there use of aio_*(), which might use threads
(well, POSIX allows it).

> In fact, I expect a core Unix utility to be grown up in the good old Unix 
> school, i.e. fork() and exec()!

It is. :)

> We met The One* Unix coder thinking "I like new things!".

Thankfully, Ted Ts'o is not a Nazgul (despite his close involvement in
the flashy new things of Kerberos and IPSec).

-- 
`I must caution that dipping fingers into molten lead
 presents several serious dangers.' --- Jearl Walker


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