Messages in this thread | | | From | Werner Almesberger <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux" | Date | Fri, 25 Aug 2000 00:42:05 +0200 (MET DST) |
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yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > Cool name. And it makes a kind of poetic sense that > kill(pid,SIGOVERKILL) should de-POSIX a process.
Uh ? It should be already de-POSIXed. For "regular" processes, SIGOVERKILL should probably just act like SIGKILL. Still leaves the issue that tools to kill processes may need to know about the new signal too.
> > So you need a privileged launcher or VMS-style privileged libraries. > > Oh dear ... > > Why not? Better than having it in the kernel. Think of Pthreads executables > as misc type.
I think that would create a lot of external dependencies and you'd have to go for heavier threads, e.g. you can't share VM. Probably not worth doing.
- Werner
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