Re: [patch] thread-exec-2.5.34-B1, BK-curr

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> i dont like those semantics either - will verify whether thread-specific
> exec() works via a helper thread (or vfork) - it really should.

As long as it works with something sane (and vfork() is sane), I'm happy 
with the posix behaviour by default. After all, the execve() really _does_ 
need to "de-thread" anyway, and if we need to make that explicit (with the 
vfork()) then that's fine.

		Linus