On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Santosh Dawara wrote:
> Nathan Meyers wrote:
> >
> > You use 'forks' in quotes. Are they processes or threads? How were
> > they created?
>
> Proper Linux Processes, If you said "java Helloworld" for the simplest
> of
> code , 'ps uax ' will tell you 4 new Processes were Spawned , I am
> guessing they are for the JVMs Internal book keeping and for executing
> the code
Keep in mind what flavor threads your JVM is using. Green threads are
user threads and are invisible on a ps display. Native threads are
tracked in ps as if they were separate processes but they are (apparently)
different. When I run JBuilder on 1.2.2/green, I get one process.
When I run it on 1.3/native, I get 6. You should see 'em breed like
rabbits when I run apps in the debugger...
I'd be curious to see if your other three threads really still have
root's euid after the 'fork' or if ps is just not updating some value
in its display properly.
On the other hand... why can't you drop the euid in each thread after
the fork, and/or before the fork? Surely it doesn't require root privs
to call fork()? (Fork? In Java? What are we talking about, anyway?)
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