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SubjectRe: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than
On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 07:34:00AM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> > There are large security considerations. A process must be KILL and
> > STOPable, no matter wether it uses threads or not. every other semantics
> > would be a security nightmare (or make threads a root-only interface).
>
> That's why pthreads as a special library or executable type seems best.

Just that that sounds very fragile ;) setuid-libraries... well...

> Otherwise, there seems room in the POSIX spec to wriggle out of the STOP
> requirement.

That might be the case, but my concern is not POSIX but security, an
orthogonal concept. Lax handling of STOP is a big security problem, even
with the process-only model (see the many programs that suffice to survive
KILL or SOTP for some time), and with threads it only gets easier.

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