[PATCH] Further eliminate POSIX-emulation under LinuxThreads

Leon Timmermans fawaka at gmail.com
Sun Feb 12 21:05:29 UTC 2012


On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab at gmail.com> wrote:
> Also what does it even mean that threads have pids? Can you kill(1)
> threads individuall? Send signals to them that aren't sent to the
> parent process etc?

I'm getting mixed test results[1] from CPANTesters related to
inter-thread signalling, despite all having the same OS version
(8.1-1-686). Not sure I can explain what's going on (though it's not
the only platform suffering from this).

Leon

[1]: http://matrix.cpantesters.org/?dist=threads-posix-0.002;reports=1;os=gnukfreebsd




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