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Speaking of prctl

Posted Sep 4, 2008 18:15 UTC (Thu) by arjan (subscriber, #36785)
In reply to: Speaking of prctl by quotemstr
Parent article: High- (but not too high-) resolution timeouts

prctl()'s purpose is to get and set values/properties on a per thread basis.....

it's not nearly as much a blanket thing as ioctl() is.

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