Specific Linux syscalls for glibc API

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 18:35:00 GMT 2015


On 11/18/2015 06:58 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:

> Do we really have a compelling reason for gettid?

It makes sense to use them in conjunction with process-shared futexes to
indicate ownership.  The return value of pthread_self isn't meaningful
to other processes.  Having to words (PID and address) complicates matters.

Florian



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