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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] posix: New Linux posix_spawn{p} implementation
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 13:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B0AFBB.4050402@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56B0A9B7.6000507@redhat.com>



On 02-02-2016 11:05, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 02/01/2016 05:21 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>> +  new_pid = CLONE (__spawni_child, STACK (stack, stack_size),
>> +		   CLONE_VM | CLONE_VFORK | SIGCHLD, &args);
> 
> Does this set up new per-thread variables?  Otherwise, errno in the
> parent and child will be same and the code still has races.
> 
> Florian
> 

Could you elaborate? In my understanding there is no requirement of
using CLONE_SETTLS to avoid races: CLONE_VFORK will suspend the 
calling process and even with child using the same TLS namespace as
the parent there will be no concurrent access between them.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02 13:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-01 16:21 [PATCH 0/3] posix: Execute file function fixes Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-01 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] posix: Remove dynamic memory allocation from execl{e,p} Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-01 16:52   ` Joseph Myers
2016-02-01 17:18     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-01 17:54       ` Joseph Myers
2016-02-01 18:09         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-02 11:24       ` Florian Weimer
2016-02-02 12:46         ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-02-02 12:47         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-02 16:33     ` Rich Felker
2016-02-07 21:28       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-02-09 11:36         ` Richard Henderson
2016-02-09 13:30           ` Szabolcs Nagy
2016-02-10 16:36             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-01 16:21 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] posix: execvpe cleanup Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-01 16:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/3] posix: New Linux posix_spawn{p} implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-02 13:06   ` Florian Weimer
2016-02-02 13:31     ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2016-02-03 11:07       ` Torvald Riegel
2016-02-03 12:05         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-02-03 12:06           ` Torvald Riegel
2016-02-03 12:14             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-08-31 21:13   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-08-31 22:08     ` Joseph Myers
2016-09-01  9:28       ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-14 13:13         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-14 18:58           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-14 19:59             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-20 20:25         ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-20 20:54           ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-20 21:01           ` [PATCH] linux: spawni.c: simplify error reporting to parent Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-22 20:54             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-23  5:21             ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-23 19:09               ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-23 19:28                 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-23 20:37                   ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-27 20:26                     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-27 21:14                       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-28 14:14             ` Rich Felker
2016-09-28 15:03               ` Andreas Schwab
2016-09-28 15:22                 ` Rich Felker
2016-09-28 18:13                   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-06 12:52                     ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-06 20:43     ` [PATCH v2 3/3] posix: New Linux posix_spawn{p} implementation Rasmus Villemoes
2016-09-14 19:37     ` Adhemerval Zanella

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