Re: Pthreads, linux, gdb, oh my! (fwd)

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

> So you're saying that you got this to work?  Because I certainly couldn't
> get it working with a higher version either.  I would really love a

I read straight down it anf realised you referenced obsolete versions of
tg->created and thus broadcast incorrectly

> I apologize for my ignorance -- I frankly don't know the intricicies of
> linux kernel development; all I know is I wrote what might be the simplest
> of all possible concurrency tests and it is failing.  If someone could
> point me to a version or combination of linux and glibc where it doesn't
> fail, I'd be happy.

The way it works on the Linux side for threads is


Kernel provides
		Shared resources
		clone() - fork with sharing of files/memory etc

glibc provides
		POSIX semantics
		pthreads API
		thread locking on top of its own spin locks and kernel locks



Alan

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