Calling os.waitpid() From Secondary Thread Under Linux 2.2.12-20?

[Randy Wiser]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 16:50:52 +1000 (EST), Jonathan Giddy
<jon at dgs.monash.edu.au> wrote:

>Anyway, my (non-)solution was to redesign my code to wait from the same 
>thread as the fork().  If you can't move the waitpid() into the main thread,
>maybe you can move the fork() into the second thread.
>
>Jon.
>

Thanks! I tried your suggestion and it seems to work fine on Linux for
now (should work on Solaris as well).

I heard a rumor that this Linux feature will be changed to be more
like other UNIXs in the future?

- Randy