Re: Killing clones
Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:58:35 -0700 (PDT)
> LinuxThreads uses a 'manager thread' (which is not the main thread) that
> can do exactly this kind of cleanup stuff.
>
> the real solution will be Posix.1b RT signal handling ...
How do you think this is going to help? What you are wanting is
for the manager to be able to wait on its parent in some way other
than polling. You need the kernel to deliver a signal in this
case and there isn't one to give.
r~