On 01/08/2018 09:17 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: >> I think the prctl() should apply to an entire process, not to a thread. > > As I mentionned in another mail, I didn't know how to do it, even less > how to do it fast enough so that we didn't add more cycles to the syscall > code.
You can _implement_ it with a task thread if you want. Just spray it across all threads at the prctl()-time instead of a single thread. It'll take a wee bit of locking. I just don't think the API should apply to a single thread.
