Re: request for help

[Brian Stafford <brian stafford uklinux net>]

On Tue, 21 August 11:04 Pawel Salek wrote:
> there is a function:
> 
> /* Terminate all threads in the program except the calling process.
>    Should be called just before invoking one of the exec*() functions. 
> */
> 
> extern void pthread_kill_other_threads_np (void) __THROW;
> 
> I guess it is the one we should try to call...

This sounds like a convenience function.  Any pthread symbol ending
in _np or _NP is non-portable.

My guess is that if the xxx_np capability is provided it's probably an
optimisation over the portable code, so that and the portable version should
be protected with #if HAVE_XXX and tested for by ./configure

brian