Re: fcntl file locking and pthreads
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron-office.nl)
Sun, 4 May 2003 15:24:21 +0000 (UTC)
In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0305040922020.32427-100000@iole.cs.brandeis.edu>,
Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu> wrote:
>CLONE_FILES is an argument to clone(), I'm using pthreads and I don't
>know if LinuxThreads implementation of pthreads gives me control of
>how clone is called. Anyway, if I understand what CLONE_FILES does,
>it should be given to clone, because threads do have to be able to share file
>descriptors, probably. But not the locks!
Are you sure. I think threads /of a process/ have to share the
locks, under Linux that would translate to a thread-group.
Mike.
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