[Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com: Re: uxterm from xterm-185-3 and xfontsel crashing when running under cygserver support]

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Tue Mar 30 16:21:00 GMT 2004


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



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