In message: <43D56E79.60504_at_elischer.org> Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> writes: : > - fork (although davidxu is changing that) : : well, the operation woudll continue for the parent only I woudl assume. : : > (although davidxu is changing that) : : I'm not convinced that that multiple threads should be allowed to : proceed during a fork : but I can see that not allowing it is more a "foot shooting avoidance" : than a requirement. : it could be allowed that if you do a fork and allow multipel threads to : runat the same time : and end up with an inconsistant address space in the child, then you get : what you deserve. : :-) Why not? It is a race no matter what... And if you do single thread things, you can run into a bunch of different dead-lock scenarios. I helped to find one recently with nfs. WarnerReceived on Tue Jan 24 2006 - 02:01:44 UTC
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