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Re: LIBPTHREAD development step

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> 
> Anton Lavrentiev wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I got your point. However, let me disagree with that there are no major benefits.
> 
> There are no major benefits doing this in libpthread.  If you want one
> PID overload getpid().
> 

The issue here was not in getting one PID but in having a multi-threaded
application that lives as a single entity, not as a set of independent
processes. And in having a means to determine which process in the system
is a part of such an entity, and which is not.

>  > To live with defficiencies as suggested in more like Microsoft's way,
>  > not GNU's, don't you think so?
> 
> No, it's not.  It means that I have no intention whatsoever to invest
> any more time in this code.
> 

Fair enough.
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