Re: Killing clones (threads)

Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@MIT.EDU)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:15:34 -0400

From: Werner Almesberger <almesber@lrc.di.epfl.ch>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 10:29:17 +0200 (MET DST)

Anyway, what about: high_bits = 0 means "pick one", alias high_bits = 1
to the "root" thread, and make high_bits = 0xffff the "kill all" ?

What about high_bits = 0 means "all threads", and high_bits = 1 means
the "root" thread, and the first cloned thread gets high_bits = 2?

- Ted