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Re: Problem in pthread_key_create
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 13:00:07 +0100
- Subject: Re: Problem in pthread_key_create
- References: <200501091731.j09HVm9m000706@thor.remedy.nl>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jan 9 18:31, Johnny Willemsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Posted this last Friday but didn't got anything back. I think this is a bug
> in the pthread library of Cygwin. Can someone have a look at this?
>
> Johnny
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Willemsen [mailto:jwillemsen@remedy.nl]
> Sent: vrijdag 7 januari 2005 14:57
> To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com'
> Subject: Question about pthread_key_create
>
> Hi all,
>
> A question, I had a look at the implementation of pthread_key_create. When
> an invalid key is passed, a EBUSY is returned. This looks very strange to
> me, isn't it better to return EINVAL just as the pthread_key_delete does?
No, that's not a bug. Please read the SUSv3 description for
pthread_key_create() here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_key_create.html
Please note especially the chapter
RATIONALE/Non-Idempotent Data Key Creation.
It should sufficiently describe why returning EBUSY in this case isn't
such a bad idea. Unfortunately, the SUSv3 definition left the actual
behaviour open to the implementation. Another implementation could also
reset the data key to NULL in subsequent calls to pthread_key_create().
Either way, the bottom line is, don't call pthread_key_create() more
than once for the same data key.
Corinna
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