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On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 01:20:40PM -0700, yodaiken@fsmlabs.com wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 28, 2000 at 12:06:12PM -0800, David Schwartz wrote:
> > Define 'work'. 'getpid' is hardly the only function that uses pids. What
> > about 'getppid'? As but one example, consider the following code:
> Fork certainly complicates and since we don't allow fork in our realtime
> pthreads environment, it did not occur to me. But surely this is no
> biggie: fork must reset the cached value in getpid. The child forked process
> is single threaded and until the first new thread is created, getpid can
> be getpid.
I was going to say that for most pthreads implementations I can think
of, if fork() has a lot of overhead or must be serialized, that's ok.
- --Chris
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