Re: CLONE_PID (was Re: Potential Threads security bug with LinuxThreads)

Richard Henderson (rth@cygnus.com)
Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:51:26 -0700


On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 01:51:20AM +0000, David Wragg wrote:
> 2. The obvious deviations from POSIX threads: signal handling, wait etc.
[...]
> The reason I'm not tackling CLONE_PID is that I don't see what problem
> it is supposed to solve.

Primarily your point 2, that is, CLONE_PID is supposed to be the flag
that indicates when a set of tasks (at least) share a common signal
delivery queue.

It may imply other things, such as the effect of exit. Currently this
is handled with some particularly ugly atexit hooks; it would be nice
for things to be done cleaner.

It is nice to see that someone is actually working on this.

r~

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