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Re: clone() + glibc thread safe?


On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 20:40 -0500, Russell Leighton wrote:
> Can you safely use glibc functions in a thread safe way (e.g., malloc() 
> and friends) from threads generated by:
> 
>      clone(f, stack, CLONE_FS|CLONE_FILES|CLONE_VM, t)

no

unless you tell glibc you're using threads (by using the glibc threading
primitives) glibc doesn't provide such thread safety.
(glibc at runtime knows you have threads and switches to thread-safe
operations)


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