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

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu)
Date: Sun Sep 15 2002 - 13:42:50 EST


On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 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).

i dont like those semantics either - will verify whether thread-specific
exec() works via a helper thread (or vfork) - it really should.

        Ingo

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