clone() support on Linux?

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Sun Aug 19 10:19:53 UTC 2001


Previously Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> Hmmm, the cvs version seems to support clone but it hangs running it
> on a large-ish pthreads-using program (hangs in sigsuspend). Am I
> better off just using a 2.4 kernel?

Definitely, although it will still hang. pthread plays some nasty
tricks with signals that will break when you strace a threaded program.
I suspect strace needs to intercept some signals and deliver them
itself to the control thread.

Wichert.

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