Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 2 Sep 2000 03:02:50 +0200 | From | "Andi Kleen" <> | Subject | Re: thread group comments |
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:50:04PM -0700, 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.
The first goal would be to get it out of the critical path of pthread_create.
I think Linus proposed to add a settid() system call later to generate a new thread id, when that one is there then you could use that tid and remove it completely.
Do you think the SA_NOCLDWAIT/queued exit signal approach makes sense ?
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