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SubjectRe: kernel thread support - LWP's
Richard Gooch wrote:
> > The downside to this is that threads must defensively assume you
> > _might_ kill individual ones. Presumably in the Solaris model, they
> > can be written to be codependent? I'm thinking of things like
> > mutexes and so on.
>
> In this case, I didn't want the application to know what I was up
> to. I *wanted* to violate it, without it being able to work around me.

Ok, as long as it's understood that it's normal to use `kill' to violate
applications. Currently ordinary processes can assume their internal
integrity can't be wrecked by a mere signal: they either die or catch
the signal or ignore it.

-- Jamie

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