Re: Forking

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@work.smurf.noris.de)
15 Jun 1997 18:29:38 +0200

Andrej Presern <andrejp@luz.fe.uni-lj.si> writes:
> >
> > Yes. You should use LinuxThreads[1] which are kernel-pthreads. They are
> > able to share the same address space but are scheduled like a real
>
> Is it possible to prevent the thread from using certain parts of
> the process address space - like if I loaded some code in the shared

No. "Shared address space" really means "exact same address space".

> memory and fired it as a thread, can I effectively prevent such a
> thread from accessing the memory of the main program (or other such
> threads)?
>
If you need to share selectively, use shared memory.

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