Subj : Re: pthreads and fork
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Alexander Terekhov
Date : Sat Feb 19 2005 09:55 pm


Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
[...]
> on fork. And since I'm designing the language to make asynchronous
> cancelation quite safe, ...

Asynchronous cancelation is safe within async-cancel-safe regions.

You can't do "interesting" things in async-cancel-safe regions but 
hypothetical forkall() can be told to treat all your async-cancel-
safe regions as fork points (akin to pthread_cancel() treating all 
async-cancel-safe regions as sorta "tall" cancel points). Again, 
all you need is safe forkall(). File a DR/ER.

regards,
alexander.

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