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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] linux-user: implement pipe2 syscall
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:23:28 +0100
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Cc: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>

On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Riku Voipio wrote:
> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> > But it's not a bug to call execve(), or fork() then execve(), in
> > another thread at the same time as descriptors are being created.
> > Those calls scan the whole file descriptor table, and look at the
> > FD_CLOEXEC flags.
>
> Now this discussion would be much more useful if qemu was actually
> properly threadsafe to begin with...

For usermode emulation it is.

Paul