On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 05:42 +0000, daney at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > > ------- Comment #3 from daney at gcc dot gnu dot org 2006-10-05 05:42 ------- > One way to fix it would be to have a reaper thread for *each* Process. Then > the reaper could do a waitpid(pid...) instead of waitpid(-1...). If one only > spawns a few processes, this would be fine. This would allow us to get rid of > the SIGCHLD handler as well. > > Another option would to have the process reaper be a seperate process, but > that > scares me.
Even multiple threads scares me for Linux since that would mean double the amount of processes in the process table. Maybe Linux needs this problem if it still exists. I know Linux threads had this problem but I forget if NTPL does. Thanks, Andrew Pinski
