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Re: linuxthreads and signals
- From: george anzinger <george at mvista dot com>
- To: dank at kegel dot com
- Cc: "libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com" <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:02:56 -0700
- Subject: Re: linuxthreads and signals
- Organization: Monta Vista Software
- References: <3D438AA0.9E74A37A@kegel.com>
dank@kegel.com wrote:
>
> Now that the Linux kernel has added the "thread group" feature
> in an effort to allow standard Posix thread signal semantics, is
> anyone updating Linuxthreads to use it?
>
> The NGPT project is using that feature to good advantage, but
> they're also adding user-level threading, so they're not what I'm after.
> I'm asking about just plain old Linuxthreads (the one included in glibc)
> fixed up to have Posix signal semantics.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
A bit more info. In order to use this, the
CLONE_THREADGROUP flag has to be used. This changes a few
more things....
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George Anzinger george@mvista.com
High-res-timers:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/high-res-timers/
Real time sched: http://sourceforge.net/projects/rtsched/
Preemption patch:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml