> Actually I did tested this with the minifail test program, and changed > thread_run() to call _exit(0) at the end instead of "return 0": > void* thread_run(void* arg) { > ... > /* return (void *)&status; */ > _exit(0); > } > With strace I then suddenly got exit_group() which seems more correct: > [pid 1910] write(1, "Thread OK.\n", 11) = 11 > [pid 1910] exit_group(0) = ? The child of the fork should exit using _exit(0). Otherwise, it messes with the file descriptors of the parent. Dave -- J. David Anglin dave.anglin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html