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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
ed92686917 Add a magic field to the pthread structure to help recognize valid
threads from invalid ones. The pthread structure is opaque to the user
so this change does not cause any incompatibilities.

Hopefully this change will help code that was written for draft 4
fail gracefully if the programmer ignores the compiler warning about
the change in the level of indirection for the argument passed to
pthread_detach(). I got burnt, so I fixed then (expletive deleted)
thing.

These functions comply with the revised standard. That should shut
Terry up!
1998-04-03 09:31:15 +00:00
Alexander Langer
372787c102 Changed pthread_detach to conform to POSIX, i.e. the single argument
provided is of type pthread_t instead of pthread_t *.

PR:		4320

Return EINVAL instead of ESRCH if attempting to detach an already
detached thread.
1997-12-25 05:07:20 +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
Julian Elischer
c840cec7c5 Submitted by: John Birrell
uthreads update from the author.
1997-02-05 23:26:09 +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