Mutli threaded application and fork()

_gl_coder_one_ · 2006-09-16T12:56:36+00:00

Hi all I am working on a multithreaded server , which also needs to fork() and execv() another executable for certain requests from clients. Would like to know what will be the state of the threads in the child process ? Would I have to explicitly terminate the thread in the child before I execv() ? I am using pthreads for multi threading in C++. Thanks

In Linux, at least, threads are really processes that share their memory space with each other (see man clone). When a process requests a fork, the other processes (threads) that share its memory space are not (AFAIK) duplicated and the new child process can safely exec what it wants immediately.

edit: search for 'thread' here for some discussion on the subject.

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