Re: thread group comments

[Ulrich Drepper]

"Andi Kleen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I've been thinking about how to best get rid of the thread manager for
> thread creation in LinuxThreads.  It is currently needed to do the wait.

If you get rid of the manager thread (the +1 thread) then you have
another problem: you cannot send a signal explicitly to this thread
(to implement pthread_kill).  The PID of this initial thread is now
used as the PID of the thread group.

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