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Re: Workaround for glibc/BZ5983: following a child fork shows stale parent threads in the child.


Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>> [...]
>> + Â Â Âwhile (fgets (buf, sizeof (buf), status_file))
>> + Â Â Â {
>> + Â Â Â Â if (strncmp (buf, "Tgid:", 5) == 0)
>> + Â Â Â Â Â {
>> + Â Â Â Â Â Â tgid = strtoul (buf + strlen ("Tgid:"), NULL, 10);
>> + Â Â Â Â Â Â break;
>> + Â Â Â Â Â }
>> + Â Â Â }
>
> This works, but only because of an assumption of the strlen including
> the trailing NUL in "Tgid:" consuming the TAB between "Tgid:" and the
> number.

strlen does not include the trailing NUL, sizeof does.

Andreas.

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