How is _GLOBAL_REENT meant to be used?

[Thomas Zenker]

Am 24 Apr 2006 um 11:24 hat Schwarz, Konrad geschrieben:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: newlib-owner@sourceware.org 
> > Ok, but what if you do not use newlib for threads within a 
> > process (f.e. under linux), but as independent tasks in a 
> > RTOS, then you want to keep the information about open files 
> > separate for each task.
> 
> You don't want to do this in modern systems :-).
> 
> The approach of emulating e.g., Unix processes as RTOS ``tasks'' dates
> to before the time that Unix supported threads.  With the advent of
> pthreads, it is much better to map RTOS ``tasks'' to Pthread
> ``threads''.  E.g., this mapping acknowledges the fact that all memory
> is shared.

I don't want to emulate UNIX processes with all semantics but some. So to have libc 
separate for each task and cleanup on exit. pthread_exit doesn't do anything.