From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix linuxthreads with pthread_attr_setstack{,addr}
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:33:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040430151958.GZ5191@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040430171450.2358.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 05:14:50PM -0000, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> 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
It is in pthread_join's RATIONALE:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/pthread_join.html
Jakub
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-30 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-29 16:31 Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-29 16:43 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-30 17:14 ` Wolfram Gloger
2004-04-30 17:33 ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2004-04-30 18:04 ` Wolfram Gloger
2004-05-01 9:38 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-03 21:12 ` Ulrich Drepper
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