From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10989 invoked by alias); 5 Sep 2013 09:47:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-bugs-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-bugs-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 10954 invoked by uid 48); 5 Sep 2013 09:47:22 -0000 From: "olivier.grisel at ensta dot org" To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org Subject: [Bug libgomp/52303] libgomp leaves threads lying around that cause trouble if the program is later fork()'d Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 09:47:00 -0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: gcc X-Bugzilla-Component: libgomp X-Bugzilla-Version: 4.6.2 X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: normal X-Bugzilla-Who: olivier.grisel at ensta dot org X-Bugzilla-Status: RESOLVED X-Bugzilla-Priority: P3 X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: cc Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00248.txt.bz2 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52303 Olivier Grisel changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |olivier.grisel at ensta dot org --- Comment #4 from Olivier Grisel --- Wouldn't it be possible to make the libgomp runtime record the pid of the process who initialized the openmp thread pool and then whenever a parallel section is reached by the process to check whether the pid of the current process matches the pid that initialized the thread pool? If not a new init could be triggered at that point to make it possible to have a fork-child process use openmp sections in turn transparently. Alternatively it would be nice to have access to a public function to shutdown ("de-initialize") a thread pool prior to a fork.