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Re: [Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com: Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support]
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:21:18 -0500
- Subject: Re: [Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com: Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support]
- References: <15169.1080650540@www37.gmx.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 02:42:20PM +0200, Thomas Pfaff wrote:
>1. The thread which is started by the service control manager must be
>initiallized, for example in the first get_tls_self_pointer call. Chris has made
>some changes to TLS, i do not know if _my_tls can be used for a thread that is
>created from outside.
If _my_tls couldn't be used for a thread that is not created by pthread,
then cygrunsrv would be dying more spectactularly and earlier since
_my_tls is use everywhere.
_my_tls is not related to pthreads.
cgf