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Author SHA1 Message Date
John Birrell
4a027d50c7 Change signal model to match POSIX (i.e. one set of signal handlers
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!
1998-04-29 09:59:34 +00:00
John Birrell
883674371e Enable static initialisation of mutexes and condition variables. 1998-04-04 11:33:01 +00:00
Alexander Langer
09bb0da60c Modify the return values to comply with POSIX. Previously these
functions would return -1 and set errno to indicate the specific error.
POSIX requires that the functions return the error code as the return
value of the function instead.
1997-11-25 01:29:16 +00:00
Alexander Langer
666dfc8237 Correct the return value from pthread_cond_timedwait when a timeout
occurs (was EAGAIN, is now ETIMEDOUT).

Submitted by:	Daniel M. Eischen <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org>
1997-11-23 22:58:26 +00:00
John Birrell
8253a7d685 Set wakeup time in pthread_cond_wait() to `forever' (-1) to prevent
calling thread from being rescheduled based on an unspecified wakeup
time.

Bug/fix pointed out by Alexandre Fenyo <fenyo@email.enst.fr>.
1997-04-11 22:38:22 +00:00
Julian Elischer
c840cec7c5 Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.
1997-02-05 23:26:09 +00:00
Nate Williams
ae0baddec3 Remove now un-necessary FreeBSD specific code since our timespec
structure now has the correct member names.

Pointed out by: Peter Wemm
1996-09-20 06:33:54 +00:00
Julian Elischer
0f7d684755 Submitted by: John Birrell <cimaxp1!jb@werple.net.au>
Here are the diffs for libc_r to get it one step closer to P1003.1c
These make most of the thread/mutex/condvar structures opaque to the
user. There are three functions which have been renamed with _np
suffixes because they are extensions to P1003.1c (I did them for JAVA,
which needs to suspend/resume threads and also start threads suspended).

I've created a new header (pthread_np.h) for the non-POSIX stuff.

The egrep tags stuff in /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile that I uncommented
doesn't work. I think its best to delete it. I don't think libc_r needs
tags anyway, 'cause most of the source is in libc which does have tags.

also:

Here's the first batch of man pages for the thread functions.
The diff to /usr/src/lib/libc_r/Makefile removes some stuff that was
inherited from /usr/src/lib/libc/Makefile that should only be done with
libc.

also:

I should have sent this diff with the pthread(3) man page.
It allows people to type

make -DWANT_LIBC_R world

to get libc_r built with the rest of the world. I put this in the
pthread(3) man page.  The default is still not to build libc_r.


also:
The diff attached adds a pthread(3) man page to /usr/src/share/man/man3.
The idea is that without libc_r installed, this man page will give people
enough info to know that they have to build libc_r.
1996-08-20 08:22:01 +00:00
Julian Elischer
012dfd00b3 Reviewed by: julian
Submitted by:	 john birrel

One version of the pthreads library
another will follow with differnt actions under some cases..
not QUITE complete
1996-01-22 00:23:58 +00:00