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Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results

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Subject: Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 20:55:44 +0100

On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 07:53:00PM +0000, Eduardo Horvath wrote:
> All threaded programs have problems with #1 which is why they have thread 
> safe libraries and locks.  Or do locks not work after the vfork() call?

Locks can and do interact very badly with both fork and vfork.
They are not pure memory constructs.

Joerg

References:
- Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
  - From: Martin Husemann
- Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
  - From: YAMAMOTO Takashi
- Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
  - From: Joerg Sonnenberger
- Re: RFC: import of posix_spawn GSoC results
  - From: Eduardo Horvath

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