Re: kernel thread support - LWP's

Steve Dodd (dirk@loth.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 03:21:15 +0100


On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 11:16:39AM +1000, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Sure, I'm happy with a new kind of process group. In the docs we can
> say "this is for threads". Couple that with a new kill() syscall which
> does "kill one of a group" and we can support POSIX semantics.

How about extending process groups so that a process can belong to any (sane)
number of groups?

addpgid(pid, pgid);
rempgid(pid, pgid);

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