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> The LinuxThreads pthread_create works by passing a message through a pipe to a
> manager thread, and then blocking. The manager thread allocates the resources
> for the new thread and then creates it via clone(). It then unblocks the
> original thread which is suspended inside pthread_create().
At what point in this process will pthread_create() return? It actually returns
very fast - the slow part is getting to the first line of the function that is
being passed to pthread_create() in the newly created thread.
My guess is that clone() should return very fast to the original thread, but
might take a while to return to the newly created thread, which is what is
causing the problem.
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