Re: glibc 2.10, NPTL and missing pthread_mutexattr_settype

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Wednesday 02 December 2009 14:49:40 Chris Hall wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I come desperately seeking enlightenment -- I seem to have hit a brick wall
> trying to find out what NPTL does and does not support.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the direction of any authoritative source on this,
> please ?
> 
> I have a particular problem with pthread_mutexattr_settype and the related
> PTHREAD_MUTEX_XXX values.  (I have Fedora with glibc 2.10.)
> 
> These seem to be skipped under _USE_UNIX98 in pthreads.h.  I note that this
> is marked optional [XSI] in 1003.1-2004 but moved to Base in 1003.1-2008.
> 
> So... should I expect to find them in a current version of glibc ?
> 
> So digging some more, I find that in unistd.h there's #define
>  _XOPEN_VERSION 700 -- which means I should expect 1003.1-2008, yes ? 
>  Which includes the pthread_mutexattr_settype etc...

if you just want things to work, define _GNU_SOURCE and you should get access 
to everything
-mike

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