#fork and deterministic resumption of the resulting process
Paolo Bonzini
bonzini at gnu.org
Tue Feb 5 21:06:51 UTC 2008
> Err, it is not what? Deterministic? Or safe? The point about it being
> deterministic did not relate to when exactly the process would resume
> (no real-time guarantee) but rather that it would resume
> deterministically in relation to its parent process (in this case, only
> after the parent process got suspended).
Not completely deterministic. The behavior may change depending on
whether there are other processes or not, that run at the active process
priority.
What if you instead bumped a little the priority of the active process
until the forked process started running?
Paolo
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