* [9fans] waiting for dead procs with libthread
@ 2005-11-03 17:54 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-11-03 17:58 ` Russ Cox
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From: Fco. J. Ballesteros @ 2005-11-03 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Just wondering. Why is it that proccreate/rfork use RFNOWAIT?
The result is that you can't use threadwaitchan() to learn of
procs created (for things other than exec) that died.
thanks
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* Re: [9fans] waiting for dead procs with libthread
2005-11-03 17:54 [9fans] waiting for dead procs with libthread Fco. J. Ballesteros
@ 2005-11-03 17:58 ` Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2005-11-03 17:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> Just wondering. Why is it that proccreate/rfork use RFNOWAIT?
> The result is that you can't use threadwaitchan() to learn of
> procs created (for things other than exec) that died.
Just have them send you a message on a channel before
they exit. Threadwaitchan() exists only because exec'ed
programs can't do that for themselves.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] waiting for dead procs with libthread
2005-11-03 18:01 Fco. J. Ballesteros
@ 2005-11-03 18:18 ` Russ Cox
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From: Russ Cox @ 2005-11-03 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> Your own procs can't do that either if they die. Right?
> Or perhaps the argument was that in that case it doesn't matter?
If one proc dies unexpectedly, your program is now in an
inconsistent state (maybe it was holding some locks;
maybe it was in the middle of editing some data
structure; etc.) and you are screwed anyway.
Russ
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* Re: [9fans] waiting for dead procs with libthread
@ 2005-11-03 18:01 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2005-11-03 18:18 ` Russ Cox
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From: Fco. J. Ballesteros @ 2005-11-03 18:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 9fans
Your own procs can't do that either if they die. Right?
Or perhaps the argument was that in that case it doesn't matter?
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