Re: thread groups bug?

David Howells (dhowells@redhat.com)
Thu, 28 Feb 2002 15:36:27 +0000

Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 02:52:36PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> >
> > If the master thread of a thread group (PID==TGID) performs an execve()
> > then it is possible to end up with two or more thread groups with the same
> > TGID.
>
> How about: (3) make execve allocate a new thread group id?

It seems that the TGID must also be a valid PID so that signal handling will
work correctly...

This could be solved by making PIDs independent of processes, but that's
really not very nice.

David
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