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Re: pthreads and fork()
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Samuel Tardieu)
Tue Feb 20 13:16:01 1996
To: pthreads@MIT.EDU
Cc: LE GUENNEC Alain <Alain.LEGUENNEC@enst-bretagne.fr>
Date: 20 Feb 1996 18:34:36 +0100
In-Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu's message of 20 Feb 1996 17:19:17 +0100
Reply-To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
>>>>> "Sam" == Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> writes:
Sam> How is fork() supposed to work with pthreads on Linux ? Is it
Sam> supposed to work or is there anything else which should prevent
Sam> it to do the right job ?
I'll explain my question : a colleague of mine told me that the
following program:
=======
main()
{
if (fork()==0) {
printf("Child\n");
sleep(5);
printf("End of child\n");
} else {
printf("Father\n");
sleep(5);
printf("End of father\n");
}
}
=======
was never returning from the child process on Linux using a dynamic
version of the pthreads library as bundled with the Linux GNAT
distribution.
Could people with Linux boxes test this simple program for me and send
me a *private* mail (I'll summarize later, don't fill up the mailing
list) with what it did and what pthreads release you used (and
possibly what version of the Linux libc) ?
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Sam
PS/ I'm interested even if you use a static version of the pthreads
library.
PPS/ The bug seems to occur only with the Linux version, I just tried
with SunOS and 1.60b4_1 and it works fine.
--
"La cervelle des petits enfants, ca doit avoir comme un petit gout de noisette"
Charles Baudelaire
