My understanding is that pthread_cond_wait is a cancellation point.
It achieves this by entering asynchronous cancellation mode before blocking.
I don't see, however, any code that checks for a pending cancellation when
we enter the function. As far as I can tell, the implementation is that
pthrea
>How I got around this was to apply Thomas Schwinge's fix_have_kernel_resources
>branch to libpthread. Basically, the first thread structure allocated is not
>zeroed out,
>so have_kernel_resources is some random non-zero number, and thus the thread
>neither gets a wakeup port, nor does the kernel_
- Original Message -
From: Richard Braun
To: Thomas Thomas
Cc: bug-hurd@gnu.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: Compiling ext2fs.static with pthreads
>On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:16:09PM -0700, Thomas Thomas wrote:
>> So, it runs as a translator. Spews out some unexp
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:03:55PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> The alignment issue is for threadvars: as long as we have them, we
> need the stack to be aligned, and some constant size. Fortunately,
> threadvars are to be dropped, but it's still not complete yet.
That's also the idea I got fr
The alignment issue is for threadvars: as long as we have them, we
need the stack to be aligned, and some constant size. Fortunately,
threadvars are to be dropped, but it's still not complete yet.
Samuel
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 01:01:03PM -0700, Thomas DiModica wrote:
> Richard, if you wish to remove this optimization for the sake of clarity, be
> my guest. I was just trying to be faithful to the working of the original
> code.
I won't remove it for two reasons: first, it looks indeed faithful to
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:24:20AM +0200, Richard Braun wrote:
> What prevents _hurdsig_init from being called unconditionally and
> earlier ?
In the meantime, I merely made sigstate_is_global_rcv check that
_hurd_global_sigstate isn't NULL. Now I have a subhurd completely
populated by pthreads-en
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 07:16:09PM -0700, Thomas Thomas wrote:
> So, it runs as a translator. Spews out some unexpected debugging info that
> Barry
> added, but I can add files, delete files, list directories, etc. I haven't
> tested it under
> load, however. Thank you for the link on debugging t
