Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:21:18 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than |
| |
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).
-- -----==- | ----==-- _ | ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann +-- --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / pcg@opengroup.org |e| -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ XX11-RIPE --+ The choice of a GNU generation | | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |