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Re: changes in pthread signal handling to achieve posix compliance?
- To: "Hendricks, Kevin" <khendricks at ivey dot uwo dot ca>
- Subject: Re: changes in pthread signal handling to achieve posix compliance?
- From: Kaz Kylheku <kaz at ashi dot footprints dot net>
- Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 06:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Hendricks, Kevin wrote:
> This seems like a huge change at the linuxthreads level in the glibc code
> since they use the thread specific signal approach to control most if not
> all individual thread restarts, etc.
>
> Is this going to happen? In time for glibc 2.2 or some later time frame?
> Will there still be an option to send a thread specific signal?
There will have to be, because otherwise what would pthread_kill() do?