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From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Separate CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_THREAD behavior
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:10:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011025021021.A2928@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <117830000.1003951015@baldur>
In-Reply-To: <117830000.1003951015@baldur>; from dmccr@us.ibm.com on Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 21:16:55 +0200


On 20011024 Dave McCracken wrote:
>
>Several versions back you added code that forces CLONE_PARENT behavior
>whenever CLONE_THREAD is specified.  This unnecesarily forces a particular
>multi-threading model at the application level, and in fact breaks some
>ways of doing multi-threading.
>
>In particular, it requires that at least one task in an application *not*
>be part of the thread group, and that the pid returned by the original
>fork() can not be the thread group id itself.
>
>It would still be entirely possible to code an application or threading
>library in the way you envision by specifying CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_THREAD
>together.  However, there's no good reason for forcing this model.
>
>A patch to remove that restriction is below.
>

Will this break current pthreads in glibc 2.2.4 ???

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J.A. Magallon                           #  Let the source be with you...        
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-25  0:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-24 19:16 [PATCH] Separate CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_THREAD behavior Dave McCracken
2001-10-25  0:10 ` J . A . Magallon [this message]
2001-10-25 13:24   ` Dave McCracken

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