Fixed size of thread stacks in the nptl pthread implementation

Mike Frysinger vapier@gentoo.org
Mon Feb 6 20:29:00 GMT 2012


On Monday 06 February 2012 01:33:59 Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> You might want to ask on the Austin Group Mailing list if anything
> would prevent a conforming POSIX implementation from having a growing
> stack as the default (I say default because that's the only case where
> the implementation has control over the creation of the stack space)?

the pthread stack funcs that set the size say everywhere that the valid 
specified is only the guaranteed minimum.  that says to me that growing is 
allowed by the implementation.
-mike
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