[Mono-bugs] [Bug 68141][Maj] Changed - forking problems

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Changed by dick@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=68141

--- shadow/68141	2004-10-12 21:08:25.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/68141.tmp.3310	2004-10-13 09:11:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Bug#: 68141
 Product: Mono: Runtime
 Version: unspecified
 OS: unknown
 OS Details: 
-Status: NEW   
-Resolution: 
+Status: RESOLVED   
+Resolution: NOTABUG
 Severity: Unknown
 Priority: Major
 Component: misc
 AssignedTo: mono-bugs@ximian.com                            
 ReportedBy: james@ximian.com               
 QAContact: mono-bugs@ximian.com
@@ -28,6 +28,19 @@
 ------- Additional Comments From james@ximian.com  2004-10-12 21:08 -------
 For me, when running the test, it dies after "Configuring..." gets
 printed (it never prints "Configured." or sleeps).
 
 This remoting config stuff is just one of the things that I've found
 that causes this.  I'm not sure how it's significant other than that.
+
+------- Additional Comments From dick@ximian.com  2004-10-13 09:11 -------
+Quoting from Butenhof's "Programming with POSIX Threads", p197, s6.1:
+
+"When a threaded process calls fork to create a child process,
+Pthreads specifies that only the thread calling fork exists in the
+child. ... Pthreads does not 'terminate' the other threads in a forked
+process...They simply cease to exist.  ... This is not a problem if
+the child process is about to call exec to run a new program, but if
+you use fork to clone a threaded program, beware that you may lose
+access to memory, especially heap memory stored only as
+thread-specific data values."
+