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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
Julian Elischer
f5295b34ac Fixes from Jeremy Allison and Terry Lambert for pthreads:
specifically:
uthread_accept.c: Fix for inherited socket not getting correct entry in
                  pthread flags.
uthread_create.c: Fix to allow pthread_t pointer return to be null if
                  caller doesn't care about return.
uthread_fd.c: Fix for return codes to be placed into correct errno.
uthread_init.c: Changes to make gcc-2.8 thread aware for exception stack
                frames (WARNING: This is #ifdef'ed out by default and is
		different from the Cygnus egcs fix).
uthread_ioctl.c: Fix for blocking/non-blocking ioctl.
uthread_kern.c: Signal handling fixes (only one case left to fix,
                that of an externally sent SIGSEGV and friends -
		a fairly unusual case).
uthread_write.c: Fix for lock of fd - ask for write lock, not read/write.
uthread_writev.c: Fix for lock of fd - ask for write lock, not read/write.

Pthreads now works well enough to run the LDAP and ACAPD(with the gcc 2.8 fix)
sample implementations.
1998-02-13 01:27:34 +00:00
Alexander Langer
9c49eac672 Fixed overallocation of _thread_fd_table.
PR:		3494
Submitted by:	Steve Bauer <sbauer@rock.sdsmt.edu>
1997-05-13 23:54:22 +00:00
Julian Elischer
c840cec7c5 Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.
1997-02-05 23:26:09 +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
John Polstra
82d29a82b5 Added a new module "uthread_autoinit.cc". This is a small C++ module.
It uses a static constructor to call _thread_init() at program start-up
time.  That eliminates the need for any initialization hooks in crt0.o.

Added a symbol reference in "uthread_init.c", to ensure that the new
module will always be pulled in when the archive version of the library
is used.

In "Makefile.inc", defined CPLUSPLUSLIB, so that the constructor will be
properly invoked in the shared library.

Suggested by: Christopher Provenzano, Peter Wemm, and others.
1996-02-17 02:19:37 +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