Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:26:18 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on |
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On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:06:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The fork'ed child not having any threads is the only sane semantics. After > all, it was just one thread that asked for a fork(), so it is only _that_ > thread that gets copied. Anything else would be strange, to say the least. > > Execve() is basically the same thing. Only one thread asked for the > execve(), so obviously only one thread is actually involved in it.
The beauty of POSIX 1003.13 for the RTLinux side is that we get to define POSIX_SINGLE_PROCESS and forbid forbid fork and exec: making threads semantics much cleaner.
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