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Re: Abstracting the threads package a little better
- To: Wolfram Gloger <wg at malloc dot de>
- Subject: Re: Abstracting the threads package a little better
- From: Corey Minyard <minyard at acm dot org>
- Date: 18 Mar 2001 14:23:12 -0600
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <m2y9u4nhtd.fsf@c469597-a.grlnd1.tx.home.com> <E14edZc-0002TB-00@mrvdom01.schlund.de>
- Reply-To: minyard at acm dot org
Wolfram Gloger <wg@malloc.de> writes:
> Hello,
>
> > I'm working on a threads package on Linux (for the reasons why, I'll
> > explain later), and I'm looking at the integration with glibc. Some
> > parts of the glibc-to-threads are nicely abstracted (errno stuff, key
> > stuff), some parts are not (FILE mutexes, librt, malloc mutexes).
>
> Hmm, you have noticed malloc/thread-m.h, right? I don't immediately
> understand how you want to abstract `better' than that.
I actually used that model for everything. The main problem was the
mutex initializers and the size taken by a mutex. I tried to divorce
the libc stuff from the "pthread.h" include file. The mutexes I had
were larger than the pthread_mutex_t ones, so I couldn't just use the
same space, I had to reserve some extra space. And I had to make sure
all the mutexes were initialized properly, for which I cheated and
used a function put into the .ctors section to initialize.
>
> > For FILE and malloc mutexes, I'd like to reserve a piece of memory for
> > the mutex (say, an area that will hold 10 pointers) and not directly
> > refer to the mutex type, and I'd have to remove the static
> > initializers and make runtime calls to initialization.
>
> For malloc, the static initializers aren't necessary, you could define
> MUTEX_INITIALIZER in your version/part of thread-m.h as you wish, as
> long as mutex_init() does the right thing.
>
> > P.P.S. Since I sent the first email, I have a first cut at the changes
> > required to do this. The patch is at my web page:
> > http://home.members.net/minyard
>
> I can't get there right now due to a DNS error.
That's because I messed up the address. Try http://members.home.net/minyard.
Sorry about that. If I was dyslexic, I could blame it on that, but I have
no excuse :-).
Thanks,
-Corey