[kaffe] pthread issues

Mathieu Dube mdube@8d.com
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 14:24:19 -0400


Could it be mutexed data structures that could be corrupt by the forking?

and thus the solution would be to implement something using pthread_atfork??

Im just guessing 

I want to look into that so if anyone has any pointers about that please tell 
me

Thanks
-Mat

On Thursday 27 June 2002 14:01, you wrote:
> Mathieu wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 	I dont really understand the first issue exposed in FAQ/FAQ.pthreads :
> > We currently don't support fork/exec/wait under pthreads.
>
> I think it means process-level fork/exec/wait, which would imply that
> Runtime.exec() won't work under pthreads.
>
> I have no idea why that code would fail in the face of pthreads,
> though, so I can't say as I understand it either.
>
> -Pat
>
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