RE: [sv-ec] ERR-4

Subject: RE: [sv-ec] ERR-4
From: Jonathan Bromley (jonathan.bromley@doulos.com)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 08:35:28 PDT

hi,

> Lifetime of automatic variables in fork/join_none I propose that the following
> be added to Section 9.6
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Automatic variables in the scope enclosing a fork-join_none or fork-join_any
> shall be copied on fork of each process that references those variables.

I find this quite extraordinary. It's asking that a forked process be
(in effect) provided with a complete copy of the automatic parts of
its invoking environment, almost like a Unix fork() call. But
static stuff remains shared among forked processes.

I think this will be extremely confusing to most users. 

--
Jonathan Bromley, Consultant

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