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

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 13:32:22 EST


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

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