Re: Thread group exit

[george anzinger]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2002-08-05 at 09:58, Zeuner, Axel wrote:
> > I would expect, that changes of the parent of one member of the thread group
> > do not affect the interactions between the members of the group.
> > Corrections are welcome.
> > (Please cc mails to me, I read only the archives of the
> > linux-kernel list.)
> 
> I agree with your diagnosis I'm not convinced by your change. The thread
> groups are only used by NGPT not by glibc pthreads while the problem is
> true across both.

Have the glibc folks decided NOT to move to thread groups? 
I sort of expected that they were just taking their time,
but would eventually move.

-g
> 
> Possibly the right fix is to remove the reparent to init increment of
> self_exec_id and instead explicitly check process 1 in the signal paths.
> 
> Opinions ?
> 
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