Threads
Thorsten Kukuk
kukuk at suse.de
Wed Nov 1 22:10:39 PST 2000
Hi,
On Wed, Nov 01, Jim Kingdon wrote:
> At the recent open source database summit[1], I asked the developers
> there whether people had problems with threads on Linux.
>
> The answer I got was that the semantic differences from POSIX weren't
> really a problem, but they really, really wanted better debugging.
I always hear from ISVs that it is a pain on Linux that getpid return
different values for threads. So you have no chance to detect if you run
in a thread or if there was a fork.
Thorsten
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Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse,
cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.
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