Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:15:19 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: Slow pthread_create() under high load |
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Linus Torvalds writes: > The way these things should work, in my opinion, is that when you > externally send a signal to the "main thread" (the one whose 'pid' > the thread collection sees), that signal gets distributed in the > POSIX signal sense to all the subthreads. But you should still be > able to send a signal to a specific subthread by using _its_ "native > pid" aka "thread id".
So, externally, how do you distinguish between sending a signal to only the "main thread", and sending it to the group?
Regards,
Richard.... Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au Current: rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca
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