[RFC PATCH glibc v2] pthread_setspecific: Provide signal-safety across keys

[Florian Weimer]

* Carlos O'Donell:

> On 10/17/2017 04:24 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> The intent here is to provide signal-safety against callers to
>> pthread_{get/set}specific that work on different pthread keys,
>> without hurting performance of the normal use-cases that do not
>> care about signal-safety.
>
> ...
>
> I just wanted to note 2 things before we go any further:
>
> (1) We should be able to accept your patch even though you don't
>     have a copyright assignment (that I can see) with the FSF.
>     The reason for this is that the patch is small and is a limited
>     number of lines.

A complete patch will likely be over the threshold, though.  And the
assignment is by no means a guarantee we will accept the patch, of
course.