I had one question that I think you could answer: vfork() does not
copy the signal handler of the parent, correct?
>
> Come to think of it, though, one thread (of a bunch that are using the
> same mm) ought to be able to vfork(), even if more then one can't. Maybe
> add a mutex around the sleep (this doesn't involve recursion, just
> multithreading, so deadlock shouldn't be too much of an issue), or give up
> and move the sleep wait_queue into the task_struct. Might need another
> count to prevent recursion, though.
>
> Before anyone asks, yes, this is almost a real-world issue. If I had
> needed to speed up a uClinux httpd much more, it would have been
> multi-threaded, and it was already CGI capable...
>
> --
> Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
>
--Perry
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