Why does the main thread in a multi-threaded program sometimes not honour CPU affinity changes?

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Issue

With multi-threaded programs, under what circumstances would the main thread not migrate when its CPU affinity is changed via taskset?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.

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