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A bit later, Linus Torvalds made a case about PID sharing and gave some
example code. He went on to say, about threading:
Note that the reason the kernel is not POSIX-compliant is:
o the POSIX standard is technically stupid. It's much better to use a
cleaner fundamental threading model and build on top of that.
o things like the above are just so much better and more easily done in
user space anyway.
The reason LinuxThreads has a hard time becoming POSIX-compliant is that
I refuse to apply stupid patches, and a lot of the patches sent to me
have been frankly stupid. They've often implemented pthreads
functionality without any actual thought of how it _could_ be done more
cleanly with a user/kernel split.
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http://kt.linuxcare.com/kt20000410_62_print.epl
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