Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Jul 1999 06:36:49 +0200 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: kernel thread support - LWP's |
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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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