Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 06:05:19 -0700
From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@sfgoth.com>
Cc: yodaiken@fsmlabs.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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Mark Kettenis wrote:
> The current draft for IEEE Std. 1003.1-200x says:
>
> "A call to any exec function from a process with more than one thread
> results in all threads being terminated and the new executable image
> being loaded and executed. No destructor functions shall be called."
Grumble... and I suppose a failed execve() needs to return an error
to that one thread, but a succesful one needs to atomically destroy all
the other threads... And HOW is this supposed to be implemented?
Well, that isn't explicitly demanded by the standard, but I don't
thing any other behaviour would make much sense.
The previous version of the standard had this right - just leave it
undefined and let the OS try to do something sane. Hopefully this part
will get nixed before the final revision.
Are you sure? I don't have a copy of ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (the
official designation of the 1996 edition which includes threads
(1003.1c-1995)), but there is nothing in the draft that indicates that
this is a new requirement. And it won't be "nixed" if none of the
kernel people object to it. The requirement makes sense to me, from a
user standpoint.
Mark
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