Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:42:18 -0500 (CDT) | From | Erik McKee <> | Subject | Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on |
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Hello!
This is one of my first posts here, so try to be gentle, please ;)
Seems like if a thread which shares a VM with all the other threads of the same family does an execve, the following would be likely to occurr, using the standard definition of execve. The vm would be overwriteen with the new image, but this would have to wwipe out all the other threads in the process, 'cuz otherwise everything they refer to has just been overwritten by the results of the execve. However, if the execve'ing thread was allowed to spawn off intop a new address space before the execve, it would then become a new process, and leave the parent procvess with one less thread to worry about.
Or am I being very stupid and overlooking something critical here?
Have a nice day ;) Erik McKee
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