Thus spake Nathan J. Williams ("NJW> ") sometime Today...

NJW> Well, exec() replaces the entire process image, so calling it from a
NJW> threaded process nukes the other threads and what they are doing. It's
NJW> true that many, many uses of fork()+exec() have better ways to be
NJW> accomplished in a threaded program, but sometimes you really *do* want
NJW> to start another process, not another thread.

D'OH.  That answered a couple questions...

...is there any way that there might be a pthread_exec() call?
Or is this completely defeating the purpose of threading?

NJW>         - Nathan


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