Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads)

Gerhard Mack (gmack@innerfire.net)
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 17:32:46 -0700 (PDT)


> BTW, after all I have read all POSIX threads library should be no more than
> a wrapper over fork(), clone and so on. Why are they so bad then ?
> I am going to get glibc source to see what is inside pthread_create...

If I recall it had to do with problems in signal delivery...

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Gerhard Mack

gmack@innerfire.net

<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.

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