problems: (1) The wrong flag was being checked for in the attribute
(2) The pthread's state was not being set to indicate it was
suspended.
Noticed by: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru>
Modify the thread creation and thread searching routine
to lock the thread lists with the new locks instead of GIANT_LOCK.
Approved by: re/blanket libthr
as curthread in the new context, so that it will be set automatically when
the thread is switched to. This fixes a race where we'd run for a little
while with curthread unset in _thread_start.
Reviewed by: jeff
_get_curthread(). This is similar to the kernel's curthread. Doing
this saves stack overhead and is more convenient to the programmer.
- Pass the pointer to the newly created thread to _thread_init().
- Remove _get_curthread_slow().