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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 02:10:21 +0200
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Separate CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_THREAD behavior
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On 20011024 Dave McCracken wrote:
>
>Several versions back you added code that forces CLONE_PARENT behavior
>whenever CLONE_THREAD is specified.  This unnecesarily forces a particular
>multi-threading model at the application level, and in fact breaks some
>ways of doing multi-threading.
>
>In particular, it requires that at least one task in an application *not*
>be part of the thread group, and that the pid returned by the original
>fork() can not be the thread group id itself.
>
>It would still be entirely possible to code an application or threading
>library in the way you envision by specifying CLONE_PARENT and CLONE_THREAD
>together.  However, there's no good reason for forcing this model.
>
>A patch to remove that restriction is below.
>

Will this break current pthreads in glibc 2.2.4 ???

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