More work on improving interaction between fork and pthreads. Added null_terminated_array_t class.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/postfork.h b/postfork.h
index 9eaf06e2..06364b31 100644
--- a/postfork.h
+++ b/postfork.h
@@ -23,4 +23,8 @@
 int set_child_group( job_t *j, process_t *p, int print_errors );
 int setup_child_process( job_t *j, process_t *p );
 
+/* Call fork(), optionally waiting until we are no longer multithreaded. If the forked child doesn't do anything that could allocate memory, take a lock, etc. (like call exec), then it's not necessary to wait for threads to die. If the forked child may do those things, it should wait for threads to die.
+*/
+pid_t execute_fork(bool wait_for_threads_to_die);
+
 #endif