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Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results



On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 06:56:00AM +0000, YAMAMOTO Takashi wrote:
> > Good catch - I'll defer the release untill the child has done it's 
> > rw_enter().
> 
> it would deadlock if in the mean time another thread does rw_enter(WRITER)
> on the lock.

Hmm, but we can't just use the existing parent lock in the child, at
least under LOCKDEBUG it is process-specific - how can we pass it on
safely?

(I'll check the other issues you pointed out ASAP)

Thanks,

Martin


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