>To the best of my knowledge, the current implementation of fork() in a
>thread is correct. How do you think it fails? The permitted behavior
>of a child forked from a threaded process is quite limited, and it's
>easy to invoke undefined behavior.

I had a misunderstanding that fork() will inherit threads in the child 
process [but Christian Limpach corrected me]. The POSIX requirement is 
that the fork() should be async-signal-safe.

regards
-kamal

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