From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: enh <enh@google.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk \(man-pages\)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pthread_kill.3: Update to match POSIX.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2019 06:51:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r22c9ve8.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJgzZorB99W2PzjQ5ZU1nBiYb81Ubm=VvaF50BOm9sTFUHeE4A@mail.gmail.com> (enh's message of "Tue, 12 Nov 2019 21:27:21 -0800")
* enh:
> no, because the C library has two choices when a thread exits:
>
> 1. unmap the thread.
>
> 2. keep the thread around for recycling.
>
> if you choose 1 (optimizing for space, like Android), your dereference
> is illegal.
This choice is only available for threads in a detached state. For
joinable threads, a conforming implementation cannot immediately
deallocate all data structures on thread termination. Among other
things, it has to store the future return value of pthread_join
somewhere.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-13 5:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-12 20:36 [PATCH] pthread_kill.3: Update to match POSIX enh
2019-11-12 21:38 ` Florian Weimer
2019-11-12 21:40 ` enh
2019-11-12 21:52 ` Florian Weimer
2019-11-12 22:06 ` enh
2019-11-12 22:11 ` Florian Weimer
2019-11-12 22:22 ` enh
2019-11-12 22:28 ` Florian Weimer
2019-11-13 5:27 ` enh
2019-11-13 5:51 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2019-11-13 5:59 ` enh
2019-11-13 6:10 ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-09 23:00 ` enh
2021-11-10 7:14 ` Florian Weimer
2021-11-12 0:01 ` enh
2021-11-12 13:02 ` Florian Weimer
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