Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on native Linux"

From: Philipp Rumpf (prumpf@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 10:50:05 EST


On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 09:59:00PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Cool problem:
>
> Some threaded, uh, "thing" sends SIGSTOP to one of its threads.
> The admin sends SIGSTOP to the whole group of tasks, then sends
> SIGCONT to undo the SIGSTOP. Does the thread stopped earlier
> get to continue, or does it somehow remain stopped?

It might be worth it to make SIGSTOP / SIGCONT nest properly anyway. Would
keeping a counter of the level of SIGSTOPs received violate any common
standard / break any applications ?
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