Re: Signals, sockets and threads

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Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Guilhem" == Guilhem Lavaux <guilhem@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> Guilhem> 1) POSIX syscalls where originally written with no threads in
> Guilhem> mind.  glibc uses a trick to store errno in a thread local
> Guilhem> storage using a special function. So the expected behaviour
> Guilhem> of storing errno just after the accept is true only in this
> Guilhem> case. If you use other type of threaded system then it may
> Guilhem> not be right (or for example if the library is buggy).
> 
> Do these systems exist?
> 
> I was under the impression that this errno behavior was required by
> the posix threads spec.  But I admit I don't have a definitive URL :-)
> 

Googling around a little seems to indicate that while yeah, systems
*should* be errno-thread-safe, some just aren't.

It also seems like defining _REENTRANT or _LIBC_REENTRANT should give
you a thread-safe errno in some systems.


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