[PATCH] Fix linuxthreads with pthread_attr_setstack{,addr}

Wolfram Gloger wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de
Fri Apr 30 17:14:00 GMT 2004


Hello,

> POSIX says on pthread_join:
> 
> "For instance, after pthread_join() returns, any application-provided stack storage
>  could be reclaimed."

Chapter and verse?  This sounds rather vague, too.

On comp.programming.threads, pthreads architect Dave Butenhof has
claimed repeatedly that POSIX makes _no_ such guarantees, i.e. that
strictly speaking you can _never_ free user-defined stack space..
Eg.:

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=3A797AB3.A57D43E9%40compaq.com

Regards,
Wolfram.



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