Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 11:38:58 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [patch] thread-exec-2.5.34-B1, BK-curr |
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On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > i dont like those semantics either - will verify whether thread-specific > exec() works via a helper thread (or vfork) - it really should.
As long as it works with something sane (and vfork() is sane), I'm happy with the posix behaviour by default. After all, the execve() really _does_ need to "de-thread" anyway, and if we need to make that explicit (with the vfork()) then that's fine.
Linus
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