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