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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!v3!brian
- From: brian@vestek.com (Brian Houston)
- Subject: Re: lightweight processes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.093201.531@vestek.com>
- Keywords: lwp threads nbio
- Sender: brian@vestek.com (brian houston)
- Organization: Vestek Systems
- References: <SIM.92Jul30175133@mdtf14.fnal.gov> <2287@unet.UUCP>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 09:32:01 GMT
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- >>I am interested in using lightweight processes (threads) for a project.
- >>The man page for lwp_create . . .
- >
- > I am also trying to use the lwp libraries. The man page notes under
- >bugs:
- > Killing a process that uses the non-blocking I/O library may leave
- > objects (such as its standard input) in a non-blocking state. This
- > could cause confusion to the shell.
- >
- > When I use the non-blocking I/O library, the shell exits immediately
- >after the program exits, so it looks like something was left funny.
- >
-
- the reason why the shell is being blown out of the water,
- is that your code isn't exiting using the pod_exit()
- routine yet (I think...).
-
- good luck
- brian
-