Subject: Re: popen reentrant (was Re: SA/pthread and vfork)
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/10/2003 15:28:03 
On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Bill Studenmund wrote:

: To avoid all sorts of weirdness (like what happens on an MP system when
: one thread kills a vfork()'ing thread, etc.), let's just stall the whole
: process.

As a data point, Solaris does precisely this.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@duh.org> <tv@pobox.com>