Re: patch to fix SMP vkernel reboots

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 12:14:51PM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Ideally this dance would not be necessary as exec is supposed to kill
> :all LWPs.
> :
> :Joerg
> 
>     It is?  I'll just make it kill all the LWPs then.

Yes. That is where exec and fork differ. Fork is not required to clone
the non-current LWP and that's why only async safe functions are allowed
after fork.

Joerg