Subj : Re: Linux - waitpid portability
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Paul Pluzhnikov
Date : Thu Feb 03 2005 10:28 pm

sreenidishc@gmail.com writes:

> The main process consists of five threads. Any of the four threads
> could fork the child processes.

Note that writing a correct program that fork()s after any threads
have been created is *extremely* tricky. If you make a slightest
mistake, your program will deadlock sooner or later, and you'll
have really hard time reproducing this bug.

> But On Linux, this design is not working because, it considers
> each thread as a distinct process.

LinuxThreads does; NPTL doesn't. 

> Any hint/links to solution would be of great help to me.

Insist on NPTL -- it is available on all recent Linux distros.

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