On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:06:12PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > Can someone tell me why:
> >
> > pthread_creat( ....)
> > if this is the first created thread
> > rootpid = getpid();
> > redefine getpid === return rootpid
> >
> > Doesn't work?
>
> Define 'work'. 'getpid' is hardly the only function that uses pids. What
> about 'getppid'? As but one example, consider the following code:
Fork certainly complicates and since we don't allow fork in our realtime
pthreads environment, it did not occur to me. But surely this is no
biggie: fork must reset the cached value in getpid. The child forked process
is single threaded and until the first new thread is created, getpid can
be getpid.
> pid_t pid=getpid(); /* This gets the pid of the original thread, not this
> one */
> fork();
> if(getppid()==pid)
> {
> /* I must be the child */
> /* But wait, am I really? */
> }
>
> DS
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