Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 22:45:55 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> In the POSIX spec fork demolishes all threads in the child. This is the > only sensible answer and it seems wasteful to ignore the rare sensible > parts of the POSIX spec. I think exec should do the same thing: calling > thread should die and be replaced by a thread/process that is not in the > thread group since it no longer shares memory.
It isnt a sensible answer. Think about a threaded web server firing off cgi scripts. You should probably kill those with the same mm. Especially if you have an unclone(CLONE_MM) since you can then unshare the VM for a thread and exec stuff off it
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