pthreads, fork+exec, and deadlocks

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Sep 10 19:41:00 GMT 2003


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Aidan Van Dyk wrote:

> The particular problem I'm seeing is with syslog_lock.

The standard doesn't guarantee that any functions but exec works after
fork in a multi-threaded program.

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