Subj : Re: signaling threads from a forked child? To : comp.programming.threads From : ptjm Date : Fri Aug 05 2005 05:58 am In article <1123188419.329641.227930@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>, markh@compro.net wrote: % Linux kernel 2.6.12 + NTPL. Could someone clarify if it the following % is possible: % % Can a forked child, signal a thread created by it's parent before the % fork? If so, how is it done? I don't seem to be able to. You can't direct a signal to a particular thread from an outside process. You could establish some other form of IPC with some other thread in the original process and have it use pthread_kill(). -- Patrick TJ McPhee North York Canada ptjm@interlog.com .