Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Jun 1998 10:58:16 +1000 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Thread implementations... |
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David Wragg writes:
> - The "process exit" message remain, but it is probably possible to > use a signal for this.
What's this one?
> Having the manager thread receive a child death signal each time a > thread exits is, although necessary in some cases, an unnecessary > overhead in others (since usually a thread will clean up after itself > and then call _exit()). I haven't though of a nice way to avoid this > (yet).
If a thread cleans itself up properly, then it can just call prctl(2) again and set the signal to 0 (disabling the signal).
Regards,
Richard....
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