Re: SCO: "thread creation is about a thousand times faster than on

From: Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 10:06:15 EDT

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Alan Cox wrote:
> It isnt a sensible answer. Think about a threaded web server firing off
> cgi scripts. You should probably kill those with the same mm. Especially if
> you have an unclone(CLONE_MM) since you can then unshare the VM for a thread
> and exec stuff off it

Think about a single threaded web server using vfork(). Then you
mustn't kill tasks with the same mm.

-- Jamie
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