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

[Linus Torvalds]

On 16 Sep 2002, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> There is code that depends on clone()/exec() not killing other threads
> in the group - some threaded web servers for example.

The new code _should_ trigger only for stuff that uses the "thread group" 
kind of thing, not normal clones. 

In other words, you can always get the old behaviour by just not asking
for a thread group (ie use just the old CLONE_SIGHAND, not CLONE_THREAD).

		Linus