Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 24 2000 - 14:26:17 EST


> > No no. You don't need to do that. That's exactly what CLONE_PARENT is
> > there for. See previous example.
>
> So would you accept CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_WAITPID patches for 2.4 ?

Make sure CLONE_PARENT now remembers to check that the parent is part of the
same thread group - the original I believe didnt. So long as that is done
right and your thread group changes on an exec (obviously) then I think
CLONE_PARENT is safe

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