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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Salz)
Mon Jun 26 14:56:43 1995
From: Rich Salz <rsalz@osf.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 13:56:10 -0400
To: scd@broked.org, pthreads@MIT.EDU
> which shows that the parent is being sent a signal (11366 is the parents pid)
> of SIGCHLD and this is killing the child.
I think you've got it backwards. The child is getting killed/exiting, and
the parent is getting sent SIGCHLD so it knows to do a wait() for it.
BTW, handling fork (as opposed to fork/exec) is a hard problem for many
threads packages, and some of them disallow it. I don't know what rules
Chris has specified...
/r$
