Making threads die quickly

Making threads die quickly

Posted Aug 22, 2002 14:42 UTC (Thu) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224)
In reply to: Making threads die quickly by jcownie
Parent article: Making threads die quickly

The Linux developers know it's a problem. If you read about
this discussion here:

http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=384

Near the end Linus says exactly the same thing you do - the ptrace
mechanism sucks.

However, at the end, Linus says:
> Ok, you've convinced me. The reparenting is fairly ugly, but it sounds
> like other implementations would be fairly equivalent and it would be
> mainly an issue of just which list we'd work on.
>
> Linus

You can read the whole thread by following the link on the
above page.

Pete

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