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Re: kern/42772 -- pthread issue with fork()



On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:03:11PM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> I'd like to commit it (and request a pull-up to netbsd-5).  Any reason I
> shouldn't?

What is the real problem here? fork(2) of a multithreaded program is
essentially "Here be dragon's" terrain. So I don't think why it matters
at all given the pthread functions are generally not async-safe.

Joerg


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