Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 1 Sep 2000 18:00:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: thread group comments |
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On 1 Sep 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de> writes: > > > I've been thinking about how to best get rid of the thread manager for > > thread creation in LinuxThreads. It is currently needed to do the wait. > > If you get rid of the manager thread (the +1 thread) then you have > another problem: you cannot send a signal explicitly to this thread > (to implement pthread_kill). The PID of this initial thread is now > used as the PID of the thread group.
Well, that can be solved by having a separate "threadkill()" system call.
But I'd much rather just have the "n+1" thing. The overhead is basically nonexistent, and it simplifies so many things.
Linus
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