>> Tim Hockin <thockin@isunix.it.ilstu.edu> writes:
>>
>> > I like it too. I'm doing it right now. Only problem is notifying the
>> > parent that it had a child without knowing it! (Next on Jerry Springer..)
>>
>> While you are at it please also take the appended patch into accound.
>> It was written by Richard Henderson after my continuous whining about
>> missing kernel features. It is also needed to correctly start
>> threads. What it does is introducing a feature available in all other
>> kernels, namely, creating a thread which is not starting to run
>> immediately.
> Why can't you do that by clone()ing to a trampoline that sends SIGSTOP
> to itself ?
The whole idea is to avoid context switches after process creation (it's not
even related to LWP's). I can not understood how clone()ing to a trampoline
will help to do this.
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