On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 00:04:00 +0200 Sebastian Skar <sebastianskar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hmm... > what's the user-perspective difference between forking and threading, > regarding open files, then ? File descriptor sharing? For threads (and processes created with CLONE_FILES) the fd's are shared as part of the common files_struct: closing an fd in a thread makes that file descriptor go away for all other threads while in the fork() case it is only released in the calling process. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
