pthread - fork - execv problem

From: Chris Stenton (jacs_at_gnome.co.uk)
Date: 06/21/04

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:30:43 +0100

    I am trying to help port over an app thats posix threaded. One thread uses
    fork,dup2 and execv to start a child programme in this case an mp3 player.
    However, under FreeBSD-5.2.1, the execv causes all the threads in the parent
    process to be blocked until the child process returns. Is there a mechanism
    to get around this.

    Thanks

    Chris

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