Re: [patch] thread-exec-2.5.34-B1, BK-curr

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> the attached patch (against BK-curr + all my previous patches) implements
> one of the last missing POSIX threading details - exec() semantics.

Ingo, can you create a test-case to verify that a new-style thread can
sanely do

	if (!vfork())
		execve();
	thread_exit();

which leaves the other threads alive and well and is reasonably 
efficient..

I don't personally much like the POSIX execve() behaviour, and I'd like to 
make sure that it can be avoided for cases where that makes sense (ie a 
threaded app that wants to start some other helper program should be able 
to do so).

		Linus