Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 07:34:00 -0600 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than |
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 11:21:18AM +0200, Marc Lehmann wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:17:19PM -0600, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote: > > implementation will act as if the original exec'd program is the process > > and does all signal handling. This process may use pthread_kill > > to pass signals on to threads, but there is no interaction between > > 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. Otherwise, there seems room in the POSIX spec to wriggle out of the STOP requirement.
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