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Re: Should we use _malloc_prefork and _malloc_postfork?



On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 09:00:14PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> I think we should go one step further than using them, and override
> fork() in libpthread so we can do similar things that the FreeBSD
> pthread fork does to make sure that it is safer (like blocking signals).

No, if anything this is what pthread_atfork is for.

Joerg


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