Robust futexes - a new approach

Posted Feb 18, 2006 20:10 UTC (Sat) by addw (guest, #1771)
Parent article: Robust futexes - a new approach

What happens if you grab one of these locks, and you fork() ?

What happens if you fork() and then exit() ? Will glibc go round freeing all of these things up - things that the parent still believes that it holds ?