make pthread_yield() more reliable,
threads always (I hope) preempted at least every 0.1 sec, as intended.
PR: bin/7744
Submitted by: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com>
the thread kernel into a garbage collector thread which is started when
the fisrt thread is created (other than the initial thread). This
removes the window of opportunity where a context switch will cause a
thread that has locked the malloc spinlock, to enter the thread kernel,
find there is a dead thread and try to free memory, therefore trying
to lock the malloc spinlock against itself.
The garbage collector thread acts just like any other thread, so
instead of having a spinlock to control accesses to the dead thread
list, it uses a mutex and a condition variable so that it can happily
wait to be signalled when a thread exists.
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.
...is expected to conform to IEEE (``POSIX'') Std 1003.1c when it is
published.
to:
...conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE (``POSIX'') Std 1003.1 Second
Edition 1996-07-12.
Discussed with: jb
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
pthread_mutex routines. I've also tweaked pthread_create.3 to point to
pthread_cleanup_push(3) and pthread_cleanup_pop(3).
PR: 7450
Submitted by: Brian Cully <shmit@kublai.com>
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.
propagates a bug (that there is no poll wrapper in libc_r), but it
prevents GNU configure scripts from trying to use it in preference
to select. libc_r really needs to change it's wait interface to use
poll instead of select because poll is more a superset of select that
the other way around.
This should allow the Roxen web server to work out-of-the-box. It's
configuration intercae is kinda neat. The code isn't. Shiver. 8-)
