From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
To: mrs@wrs.com (Mike Stump)
Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: A patch for linuxthreads
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 07:44:00 -0000
Message-id: <m10Nexm-000ErMC@ocean.lucon.org>
References: <199903172144.NAA17458@kankakee.wrs.com>
X-SW-Source: 1999-03/msg00026.html

> 
> Forgive my possible ignorance, but if on an future SMP system, you can
> have two threads running on different CPUs at the same time in a
> shared memory system, and there is no `other' locking, the above seems
> like it needs a lock around it.
> 

Thanks for your concern. The function, pthread_key_delete, is protected
by

	pthread_mutex_lock(&pthread_keys_mutex);

	....

	pthread_mutex_unlock(&pthread_keys_mutex);

Have you tried glibc 2.1? It is great.


-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)