Re: [RFC] Enable thread termination

[Richard Braun]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 04:22:06PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Richard Braun, le Sun 17 Nov 2013 17:13:23 +0100, a écrit :
> > Two resources are still recycled: the internal pthread structure
> > (because it makes ID allocation easy), and thread local storage (TLS)
> > because that's where the reply port is stored, and it didn't seem
> > convenient to call _dl_deallocate_tls in sysdeps code.
> 
> Just realizing: we *have* to reset TLS, at least by using
> _dl_allocate_tls_init, so that newer threads get the initial values for
> TLS data.

"Recycled" may not be the proper word here : libpthread defers the
release of TLS, as it's currently done, no change here. Calling
_dl_allocate_tls is done unconditionnally on thread creation.

-- 
Richard Braun