Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263610AbTIHVYY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:24:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263632AbTIHVYY (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:24:24 -0400 Received: from sj-iport-3-in.cisco.com ([171.71.176.72]:33197 "EHLO sj-iport-3.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263610AbTIHVYW (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 17:24:22 -0400 Reply-To: From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Jamie Lokier'" Cc: "'Linux Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: RE: THREAD_GROUP and linux thread Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:24:14 -0700 Organization: Cisco Systems Message-ID: <127701c3764f$8e8a2d20$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4024 In-Reply-To: <20030908211234.GA28109@mail.jlokier.co.uk> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4910.0300 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 31 > Hua Zhong wrote: > > but I am just wondering if I could just change the kernel to treat > > CLONE_VM the same way as CLONE_THREAD which is a much > simpler change. > > No. There are a good many programs which use CLONE_VM without > CLONE_THREAD, and I'm sure they will be surprised to find signals > suddenly being shared Thank you, that's exactly what I want to know. > which is implied by CLONE_THREAD. The most accurate description is "which is implied by thread_group list".... So I guess I'll live with having a separate list. > > 2. Which version of pthread uses the CLONE_THREAD flag? > > NPTL. > > Enjoy, > -- Jamie > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/