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Re: linux threads, the manager.
- To: "'glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu'" <glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu>
- Subject: Re: linux threads, the manager.
- From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>
- Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 05:01:37 -0800 (PST)
- Reply-To: glibc-linux at ricardo dot ecn dot wfu dot edu
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Monserrat Seisdedos Nuņez wrote:
> Hello everybody:
>
> I have a multithread program, and when i kill the thread manager( the 2nd
> created, and the parent of the 3 threads i generate) it become defunct and
> the 3 threads get init as parent.
So? Don't do that.
> I know the manager is waiting the threads to die so until i kill each thread
> i can't termitate with the manager.
> I would like every threads to die when i kill whatever thread in the group.
Redesign LinuxThreads.
Killing every thread when one of them dies is the manager's job. If the
manager is gone, then that job won't be done.