This is the mail archive of the libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com mailing list for the glibc project.

Note that libc-hacker is a closed list. You may look at the archives of this list, but subscription and posting are not open.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]
Other format: [Raw text]

Re: [PATCH] Fix linuxthreads with pthread_attr_setstack{,addr}


Hello,

> POSIX says on pthread_join:
> 
> "For instance, after pthread_join() returns, any application-provided stack storage
>  could be reclaimed."

Chapter and verse?  This sounds rather vague, too.

On comp.programming.threads, pthreads architect Dave Butenhof has
claimed repeatedly that POSIX makes _no_ such guarantees, i.e. that
strictly speaking you can _never_ free user-defined stack space..
Eg.:

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=3A797AB3.A57D43E9%40compaq.com

Regards,
Wolfram.


Index Nav: [Date Index] [Subject Index] [Author Index] [Thread Index]
Message Nav: [Date Prev] [Date Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next]