launching an application into space when someone tries to debug it.
The dead thread list now has it's own link pointer, so use that when
reporting the grateful dead.
- Add support of a thread being listed in the dead thread list as well
as the thread list.
- Add a new thread state to make sigwait work properly. (Submitted by
Daniel M. Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>)
- Add global variable for the garbage collector mutex and condition
variable.
- Delete a couple of prototypes that are no longer required.
- Add a prototype for the garbage collector thread.
to fork. It is difficult to do real vfork in libc_r, since almost every
operation with file descriptsor changes _thread_fd_table and friends.
popen(3) works much better with this change.
are started instead of init (pid = 1). This allows an embedded
implementation quite like VxWorks, with (possibly) a single threaded
program running instead of init. The neat thing is that the same threaded
process can run in a multi-user workstation environment too.
initialized mutex. Statically initialized mutexes are actually
initialized at first use (pthread_mutex_lock/pthread_mutex_trylock).
To prevent concurrent initialization by multiple threads, all
static initializations are now serialized by a spinlock.
Reviewed by: jb
signal can arrive before the thread is woken from it's wait4. In this
case, don't return an EINTR, just set the thread state to running and
the wait4 wrapper will loop and get the exit status of the process.
line number every time a file descriptor is locked.
This looks like a big change but it isn't. It should reduce the size
of libc_r and make it run slightly faster.
time that a thread keeps the file descriptor table locked. In particular,
perform malloc/free calls outside the lock and handle the situation
where two threads can race to initialise the table entry for the same
file descriptor.
with -D_LOCK_DEBUG. This adds the file name and line number to each lock
call and these are stored in the spinlock structure. When using debug
mode, the lock function will check if the thread is trying to lock
something it has already locked. This is not supposed to happen because
the lock will be freed too early.
Without lock debug, libc_r should be smaller and slightly faster.
cleanup destructor, so trap this case to prevent me from being being
burnt again by applications that try to do this. With this change, an
application (like one using a mis-configured ACE) will exit the process
after displaying a message quoting the POSIX section that the application
has violated.
is allocated or not, rather than keeping a count and attempting to
know it it is in-use. POSIX says that once a key is deleted, using the
key again results in undefined behaviour.
written without returning to the caller. This only occurs on pipes
where either the number of bytes written is greater than the pipe
buffer or if there is insufficient space in the pipe buffer because the
reader is reading slower than the writer is writing.
for the process, not a separate set for each thread). By default, the
process now only has signal handlers installed for SIGVTALRM, SIGINFO
and SIGCHLD. The thread kernel signal handler is installed for other
signals on demand. This means that SIG_IGN and SIG_DFL processing is now
left to the kernel, not the thread kernel.
Change the signal dispatch to no longer use a signal thread, and
call the signal handler using the stack of the thread that has the
signal pending.
Change the atomic lock method to use test-and-set asm code with
a yield if blocked. This introduces separate locks for each type
of object instead of blocking signals to prevent a context
switch. It was this blocking of signals that caused the performance
degradation the people have noted.
This is a *big* change!
